Hi all,
K200D from mother-in-law. Returned it (after borrowing) with a full set of (Duracells rebranded as) Eneloops half a year ago.
Borrowed it from her 10 days ago, turned it on, battery seemed full and I inserted a 32GB uSD (as I have done many times before). Showed 999 photo's remaining (so the the card was obviously being read) and I took a test shot that showed on the LCD. I did not actualy play back from the SD card...
Then the battery was suddenly empty and I replaced them with a fresh set of Eneloops. (So does the camera have such a big powerdraw when OFF that it kills a set of Eneloops charged with a Maha-9000 in half a year?)
We went out into a fjord in Iceland and I took 100's and 100's of Humpbackwhale pics (on that same set Eneloops). They supposedly mostly hunt alone, but I took a load of pics with two, possibly even three tales diving at the same time... And pics of my daughters in focus and a humpback out of focus in the back, well, you get the drift. Probably rarest set of pics I ever took*
So we returned and I had a look on the camera to see some pics, but none showed. Later I took out the SD card and put it into a laptop. It showed a subfolder in DCIM that disappeared while the window refreshed for some reason on the laptop.
So then, when back home, I ran Recuva and I found just old damaged AVI files from when the SD card had been used in a dashcam. This is a dashcam that only works properly if the card is formatted in said dashcam, so pretty sure it was last formatted in this dashcam.
Then I ran a DEEP-scan with Recuva and I found a single (!!!) whale pic (and all other damaged AVI's). So it did manage to write ONE pic to the card.
I still have the SD card, but have very little hope of ever rescuing the rest, but open to suggestions!
Should the camera not have given me a warning that it had an issue writing to the card? It does read the card when first inserted, right? And what other tests aree done? Is there a file-check after writing?
Was this due to the batteries being empty? (I think I took the test shot with the Duracells, but I might have that mixed up and that the batteries died shortly after putting in the SD card and that I took the 'test-pic' with the new batteries. BTW, I did NOT find the 'test'-pic' on the card.)
Obviously reformatting a card when you're going to use it for something this important is wise... but given it seemed to read it just fine (999 pics left) made me kinda forget that...
Is this due to it being a Samsung card and the software being V1.00? I only read there supposedly is an issue with SD cards AND/OR uSD-cards AND/OR Samsung SD's and V1.00 after the whale-issue. I've shot 100's if not 1000's of pics without ANY ISSUE WHATSOEVER on uSD-cards before this with this same camera. Possibly also Samsung 32GB uSD's, but probably Kingston 32GB uSD's. I swapped the card for a 32GB uSD from (probably) Kingston and it worked just fine for the rest of the vacation.
Luckily we still have the video-camera footage. But I can't make a 4x3ft poster out of that...
And mother-in-law's photo's with her (much newer non-dslr) Canon are limited as her battery ran out. Glad she declined my offer to give her the Pentax back to take some pics, then I would have messed up two peoples photo's. Then again, I would have switched to my telephone (S4) and it would have made decent pics whereas now I have zilch... They sure were close enough, especially when going inches under the boat...
* loosing this set of pics was even more annoying than rolling up my 35mm film on the development spiral-roll in a darkroom and have a light suddenly come on. (Broken ON/OFF switch that suddenly made contact again.)
Last edited by r-p; 08-05-2017 at 02:48 PM.