What’s Your Preference?

Sime™ · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 11:48 PM

So, today I had a shoot at Habitat in Regent street, London... for the cafe in there called Nouveaute... Anyway... It was all about thier food etc, so, I did my first roll (4gb Sandisk Extreme III) and then had a break / coffee and loaded the pics (Raw and jpg L) onto the laptop so I could burn a disk of the jpgs for the store to choose which they wanted... Anyways, break over.. "Roll two" was "coffee" my second Sandisk Extreme III - as new, unused... popped it in the camera, formatted.. a couple of test shots and we're good to go... So, the barrista cooks me up a couple of her best lattes and the cake is set to go on its little tray... I reel off about 60 shots and then reset the shot with some more cakes and another coffee... no problems, shooting, images are displaying fine on the back of the Canon... all done... pop the card out and sit down to copy it onto the laptop (cf card into card reader into lightroom) ...."this color profile not supported" ....ok, copy cf contents across to laptop and try a reimport... same error... pop the card back in the camera - to my horror - "Corrupt Data" ....the long and the short of this story is... imagine if A: Sandisk photo recovery hadn't recovered all of my photos when I got home and B: if it was a wedding I was shooting and not a cup of coffee... I almost died!... anyway, just had to get it off of my chest... [breathes]

#2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 12:50 AM

bless your heart, glad it recovered them!!

baseballboy828 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 12:58 AM

This is a pain when it happens. But heck, I like that the cards are susceptible. People pay me to recover their vacation snapshots from a card that was corrupted.

Lucky it was coffee rather than a bride!

matthewchj · #4 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 02:31 AM

Oww... Glad you managed to recover the data!

Gadgeteer · #5 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 03:32 AM

Holy crap Sime
Sounds Like the horrorible experience to go through. Was it a Sandisk Glitch?
Glad to to hear you recovered your data. Does sandisk offer this recovery software?

Darren Rowse · #6 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 03:54 AM

nothing worse than that!

We went to New York earlier in the year and took too cameras (DSLR and a point and shoot). The DSLR was fine - but the point and shoot took images fine - but when we got home we had errors - on both cards we'd used on the camera.

Ended up taking it into a camera shop and got them recovered. It wasn't a card problem - but something to do with the camera and how it formatted the cards. Ditched that camera now - but it was a sickening feeling to realize we had 400+ images from our holiday potentially gone!