For the record, it was a PNY Professional 8gb Class 10 card... Honestly, I've never paid too close attention to the cards, beyond size, and I do look for class 10s these days. I do have some SanDisk Extremes, too... and a couple of others I've picked up in drugstores in "emergencies"... Maybe it's time to pay attention...
:/ -c On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:53 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/27/2012 2:36 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >> Yesterday I was trying to catch a few shots of my guy in action at the >> state division track meet. I had my trusty k-5 plus 50-135 combo. I >> had just reformatted the sd card, and took some pics, just to chimp. >> So far, so good. The race started -- the one mile event -- and I shot >> off a burst as the runners came past me. Since they have to travel >> another 400 meters before they come around again, I took the >> opportunity to peek at what I got... only the previews weren't yet >> available. OK, I wait.... but the little red light stayed on... and >> wouldn't go off... and now here the runners come again (66 seconds >> later).... crap, there they go, and still my camera is hung up. No >> shooting, no previews, just a little red light. I turn off the >> camera. Red light remains, and on the top lcd screen, the "image >> remaining" count still shows, approx 216 shots left. Then, I forget >> exactly what I did -- probably turned it off& on, swore at it a few >> >> times, and cheered for my runner -- but in the end, "memory card >> error" on the back screen, and a remaining image count now at "0". >> >> And then the race was over. >> >> I've never had a memory card fail on me this way... it was traumatic! >> I think it's just the card -- I popped another one in, and there were >> no other problems. Does this behavior fit the profile of sd card >> failures you've known? How much worse do you think I made the >> situation with my frantic button-pushing? ;) >> >> Thanks, >> -c >> > I've never had a card fail that way, I've had the case crack and the write > protect tab fall out, (why the heck do we have a feature that first appeared > on floppy disks, and wasn't such a good idea then still on a solid state > memory device). > > It sounds like a reasonable error message. The camera cannot access the > card, so of course the camera will report that there is space for 0 images. > That doesn't rule out that the read/write device in the camera isn't > defective and somehow damaged the card, but it seems much more likely that > the card simply died. Like all electronics heat stress will eventually kill > it. Sandisk claims a MTBF of 1,000,000 hours, I don't know what brand you > use, I could find a number for Sandisk, but that's an arithmetic average, so > a card could die at any time, it just has the probability of lasting about > 114 years, (if I did the math correctly). > > -- > Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid > a lengthily search. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
