SD card failure (survey kinda sorta...!) (Page 7): Anything good is worth posting twice. Yours is edited, I didn't notice it.

Brandmic Loc: Alabama

Mogul wrote:

Sorry, I didn't notice yours. Mine appears to be an edited version of yours. It's strange how you post one and I get an email from a friend (not a UHH member) with almost identical content. I had mentioned some solutions to concerns he had about SD cards, and he did some research on his own.

EDIT: In retrospect, the duplication is serendipitous. I see you posted your list 10 hours ago, but I had not read the thread in the last 12 hours.

Anything good is worth posting twice. Yours is edited, I didn't notice it.

Brandmic Loc: Alabama

This is one of those topics that always generates pages of comments when posted. Seven pages so far. Lol

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

Tea8 wrote:

No I didn't go to a paid shoot with one card. (I didn't buy a DSLR last week and decide to hang sign over my doorway yesterday.) There were several in my bag, but as I stated every indication I had while on the shoot was that it was fine. I looked at the photos on the card during and right after the shoot and on my screen they were fine. It wasn't until I transferred them to my computer that I noticed the ones that were messed up.

Although we all treat our collection of cards (and usb keys too!) as rugged equipment, come to think of it, these are pretty delicate and intricate pieces of electronics and rather tiny circuitries at that! And prone to static electricity zaps etc. In your case, that could have been the culprit, UNLESS, the card, after failing in the card-reader or computer (card-reader as well), began displaying the images again correctly when re-placed in the camera!

Just a thought!

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

Brandmic wrote:

This is one of those topics that always generates pages of comments when posted. Seven pages so far. Lol

And so much useful information too, at least for some of us (I am including myself)!

Overall, the bottom-line remains that most people using a variety of card formats, brands, usage patterns etc, seem to have experienced the modern memory cards as pretty reliable, sturdy (unless you have a pet elephant chained to the computer and photo-equipment! <LOL>) and wonderful little wafer-thingies for which we remain ever Grateful at the altar of Science!

Ranjan

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

Brandmic wrote:

Anything good is worth posting twice. Yours is edited, I didn't notice it.

And if nothing, it should remind us of a related but unrelated thing!

BACK-UP, BACK-UP AND BACK-UP! Preferably on at least two types of media: magnetic (HD, internal and external) as well as optical (a CD might be tiresome but DVDs and double-layered ones can be more useful) and rather than a straight-dump back-up, we all must spend considerable time in organizing the folders and contents, which I suspect many of us probably don't! ;-)

Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

Ranjan wrote:

Although we all treat our collection of cards (and usb keys too!) as rugged equipment, come to think of it, these are pretty delicate and intricate pieces of electronics and rather tiny circuitries at that! And prone to static electricity zaps etc. In your case, that could have been the culprit, UNLESS, the card, after failing in the card-reader or computer (card-reader as well), began displaying the images again correctly when re-placed in the camera!

Just a thought!

No when I placed it back into the camera more than half of the images from the shoot wouldn't show in the camera. I don't know what happened to it, but at least it only affected a couple of the shots before I got them into the computer and I got the images my client wanted most from the shoot. So I just decided to toss that one and as I said in my first post, before I was accused of carrying only one card to a shoot, I just need to go and buy a couple of extra cards to have in my bag just to have around. You can never have too many cards right?

rrforster12 Loc: Leesburg Florida

I have been using SD cards for both photography and general data transfer for many years and have only experienced a loss of data one time, and that was due to someone aboard a cruise ships photo shop zapping it somehow. I lost the pictures but reformatted the card and am still using it successfully almost 10 years later. It appeared that it had been degaussed somehow while the data was attempting to be transferred to a CD. The "Tech" claimed the only thing he recalls happening was he dropped the card on the carpeted floor when he removed it from the camera. I guess it could have got a static charge from that but that is only supposition. BTW, I prefer using large capacity, Class 10 cards from any of the well known manufacturers. I avoid the non branded imports for photo's as a general policy, but have never had any bad experiences when I have occasionally used them. Hope this might help someone.

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

I use 2 and 4 gig cards because they were the biggest (and cheapest) available when I started digital photography eight years ago. I even bought Office Depot SD cards. I haven't had a card failure (yet...).

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

Tea8 wrote:

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That sounds very similar to my solo Lexar experience! But in my case, reformatting the card made it usable again; I used it for a few years and still have it, although it was a low-capacity card and so does not get used any more.

mikeysaling Loc: essex uk

Just had my second card failure. I say failure - what happened in both cases was one of the small plastic dividers between the contacts broke away. Luckily both times I noticed it when taking out of the camera. Anyone else had this ?

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

mikeysaling wrote:

Just had my second card failure. I say failure - what happened in both cases was one of the small plastic dividers between the contacts broke away. Luckily both times I noticed it when taking out of the camera. Anyone else had this ?

That sounds terrible! Which brand? It could be a specific batch too with manufacturing glitch!

mikeysaling Loc: essex uk

The most popular and biggest name - both 16 gb one a (4) latest a (10)extreme 45mb/s . The first one I sent to where I thought I could get some help somewhere in Ireland - it came back saying to send it some where else - no way - I just wrote it off - how many times would you take the trouble to send stuff back .

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Ranjan wrote:

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I lost one image once then lost one image again 6 weeks later on the same card then quit using it. I had the corner of the plastic case of a fairly new card break off for no reason in my card reader, picked it out with tweezers, and dumped that card too. That's it. I don't think they're very prone to failure if you take care of them, keep them out of extreme heat and static electricity, and protect them from any kind of violent abuse that could hurt the contacts.

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

marcomarks wrote:

I lost one image once then lost one image again 6 weeks later on the same card then quit using it. I had the corner of the plastic case of a fairly new card break off for no reason in my card reader, picked it out with tweezers, and dumped that card too. That's it. I don't think they're very prone to failure if you take care of them, keep them out of extreme heat and static electricity, and protect them from any kind of violent abuse that could hurt the contacts.

Thanks! You did not mention the brand of the card/cards! :-)

Ranjan Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!

mikeysaling wrote:

The most popular and biggest name - both 16 gb one a (4) latest a (10)extreme 45mb/s . The first one I sent to where I thought I could get some help somewhere in Ireland - it came back saying to send it some where else - no way - I just wrote it off - how many times would you take the trouble to send stuff back .

Sandisk?