All of the 2 gigs cards I bought for the K10 have failed, but over
years of shooting and tens of thousands of read/right cycles. I won't
mention the brand because I don't feel like the cards owed me anything -
they simply wore out. They lasted through my K10 and K7 years and failed
more recently in the K5. The failures were orderly - I'd pop in the
camera and get an error message that the card was not formatted. A
couple times they formatted Ok but then failed later, other times they
refused to format at all.
A sudden failure of what sounds like a fairly new card - like you had -
is not something I have experienced.
MCC
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
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