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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-22-2010, 03:12 PM
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Here.. I've got one or two I can contribute...
I do a lot of urbex with this lens... just need to get my hands on a copy of it...
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
05-04-2011, 07:41 AM
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So this past weekend I was shooting a wedding here in Metro Detroit... and I experienced my first equipment failure during an actual event. I'm shooting primarily with a K-7, and while going through the normal schedule of a wedding... I had started to put my camera away for dinner when I went to go check the previous few shots for some details that I was eager to catch. I hit the review button and instead of the camera showing me the last shot I had just taken, it showed me a picture during the formal pictures at the church that I had taken hours ago.
I said to myself... "What the hell?" I hadn't scrolled to those pictures... that was a long time ago. And I noticed the image number. IMGP9999.
Okay.. I've eclipsed 10,000 photos before... where's the rollover?
I searched through the pictures. I could find nothing. I had started the morning around IMGP9600, and I know I had shot well over 600 photos... I should have been reaching near capacity for my WINTEC Professional 16 gig card... but for some reason, the camera wasn't showing it. The camera read that I still had around 200 photos worth of space on the memory card.
I scrolled out to the point where I could view the folders on the card. It only showed one folder. It was listed as today's date... and that is the standard practice that I've grown to know by using a Pentax camera. There it said that the current folder was 100_0430. Alright... thats correct. But where the hell are the other pictures?
I sat there and tried to think about what I was missing. This wasn't the normal behavior of my K-7... nor was this a problem I had ever experienced before. I know that I was seeing the previews of the photos as I snapped them, because my regular practice is to take the picture, do a quick glance at the photo and the info from it to see what I could improve on. I had seen all of the photos that had been taken, I knew that my camera had taken them.
So I tried to do a quick test. I took a quick picture of the ground... and it showed up on the screen. So I quickly hit the review button. There it showed the image number currently being IMGP0200. I scrolled out again to the folder view, and this time... there was a 2nd folder... 101_0430. However, the only picture that was in that folder was the quick picture of the ground. I kept on saying to myself... 'that just can't be'. I turned off my K-7... pulled out the memory card... checked for dirty contacts... anything. Nothing was wrong. I plugged the card back in and went back to the review. However, the 101_430 folder that was just there... was gone. No picture of the ground.. just the last image that the camera had picked up in the 100_430 folder.... IMGP9999.
This giant feeling of "Oh $hit" started to come over me. I immediately pulled out that memory card... and put it in the pocket of my camera bag, and switched up to another card.
Fast forward to last night because it was the first time I had actually gotten in front of my computer to try to check the card for these files. I emptied the other cards and saved that SD card for last. Sure enough... I pop in the card and start browsing. It only sees 451 pictures, stopping at IMGP9999.
I've had to use file recovery programs before... but quickly searching here at the Pentaxforums, I checked for any programs that anyone else recommended. I ended up with 4 programs. Glary Recovery, Recuva, ZAR, and finally PhotoRec.
Sure enough.. Glary couldn't find anything... Recuva didn't... and ZAR was laughing at me. But... when I ran PhotoRec, I was a little confused with the DOS protocol that it used... and I ran it first on the free space that was found on my card. Sure enough, it found nothing. However... for some reason I said... lets try running it on the whole card. Sure enough, 10 minutes later, it popped up with recovering 600+ images on the card. I quickly looked through the pictures it recovered... and there they were, the missing 200 RAW files.
At the end of the recovery, PhotoRec also said that the memory card I was using (Newegg.com - WINTEC FileMate 16GB Professional Class 10 Secure Digital SDHC Card) had a bad sector. Now.. with everything now being okay... I'm not sure what to think about the performance of the camera and card together. I'm partial to blame the memory card for now... but I'm surprised that the camera didn't tell me about some error that it might have detected when trying to record the images.
Has anyone else ever experienced such an issue? Or similar problems? Or is this a good time to provide warning about those SD Cards?
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