Thanks guys, still coming to terms with the issue. The cards were all genuine Sandisk, Extreme 32GB 45MB/s, one new and one old and an earlier Extreme 32GB 30MB/s card, none of which ever gave me the remotest hint of a problem when used in two K5 bodies. Not happy.
Cheers, On 3 March 2014 11:44, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to hear of your difficulties, Rob. > > May I ask what brand the cards are? > > As you may know SanDisk offers a recovery software. In addition to > that, there are these: > http://download.cnet.com/SDHC-Card-Recovery-Pro/3000-2248_4-75904835.html > http://sd-card-format-recovery.soft112.com/ > http://www.reclaime.com/library/memory-card-recovery.aspx > > No personal experience with any of them. Good luck. > > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm very sorry to hear this, Rob. I wonder if you are seeing a similar >> issue to what I saw very early on. I shot some stuff and returning >> home I couldn't unload my card because it couldn't be read in my Mac. >> The Mac unmounted the card shortly after insertion saying it had >> damaged formating. And I couldn't convince the Disk Utility to repair >> it either. >> >> Can you see the card content when inserted into the K-3? >> >> What I determined was that I had failed to reformat the SD card >> immediately after purchase. After reformating (in-camera) that card >> and another of the same type that I purchased later I have not had any >> further problems after thousands of frames taken. >> >> After this incident I did switch the K-3 to dual (ie redundant) write >> mode and I always have two cards inserted. I wasn't going to take any >> more chances. :-( >> >> BTW, sadly I lost the content of that "damaged formating" card. I >> could see the images when the card was in the K-3 but nothing I did >> allowed me to extract that data, even over a USB cable. I was sorely >> pissed off. >> >> Something I never tried doing was to mount the card under Windows and >> use format repair utilities on it. I regret failing to try that but it >> didn't occur to me at the time. >> >> I hope you have better luck. >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Well I'm just about toast if my card recovery doesn't go well, I shot >>> a show last night, a fairly important one in fact and of three card >>> used in the K3 only one is readable. The one card is a month or two >>> old and the others I have had for a while and operated without a >>> problem. All cards were formatted in camera before the gig so should >>> be error free. >>> >>> I have the K3 set up to cascade from card 1 to 2 and when card two was >>> full I replaced card 1 with an empty card and that's the only one that >>> I can read. All 32 GB cards so 64GB of images are lost in the ether >>> currently, feeling a bit ill and somewhat less than complimentary >>> about the reliability of the K3 :( >>> >>> -- >>> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >>> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >>> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
