Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are some very good recovery programs that can pull deleted images off memory cards. I'd be happy to give you links or, if you send me disk images of the cards, try to pull images off for you. (try doing that off film you accidentally put in the fix first...) On Oct 28, 2003, at 9:44 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Hi Guys and Gals, > Why is it that I doubt very much I'll ever become a truly all digital > photographer? > > Well maybe the photographer part I might make, but it's the "after > what you > do with it" when you think you've downloaded the pictures to your > computer > where it all falls apart "VERY BIG TIME" that's the killer. :-( > > Today I ventured out for the afternoon fighting what felt like a force > 10 > wind, I believe 10 is a good one, certainly felt like it as I leaned > hard on > posts to stabilize myself while shooting along the water front to keep > from > being blown away. > > Damn I had what looked like really neat stuff shot R8 & slide film > with the > 21-35 lens and 80-200 with most done on the digi cam. Some nice > imagery for > comparison after the film was processed tomorrow I thought . > > However! I bet you already know what's coming, right? :-( > > Memory card is plugged into card reader, stuff comes up on screen, some > place else it says download card. I click that and little lights > flash, then > it's supposed to be over. Right? Well it looked like it was over. > > Then of course it's clean the memory card for the next go around. > Right? > Yeah well I saw them all there on the screen so that meant they were > down > loaded. Right? > > Yeah well not exactly..... :-( That was the images still in the memory > card > and not yet transferred! OOPS! Damn~! Well I saw stuff I knew was > already > in the machine so why wouldn't this mean everything else that showed of > today's shooting wasn't in the machine? > > But what I didn't know was the old stuff hadn't been deleted earlier > so the > memory card is still loaded with the old along with today's shoot. > Now you > really know what's coming. Right! So I hit select all delete and every > frame of near 100 images from this afternoon are now some where on the > way > to the dark side of the moon! ;-( > > Damn digital, some how I think I'll just do my same old thing and shoot > film, at least I usually get the stuff back from the colour lab. :-( > > So today is written off as one of those "empty camera shoots," you > know the > kind when you burned so many beautiful images into the pressure plate > you'd > be a millionaire if you could only recover them.;-) > > Oh well what the hell, tomorrow's another day along the learning > curve. But > dang I know there was some neat stuff as I'd looked a couple of times > at > that dinky little camera screen! Dang! > ted > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- John Brownlow pictures: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com warblog: http://www.unintended-consequences.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html