I was wondering if you had some advice for me. I use compact flash memory cards in my Sony A200. I have a Lexar 2g I have been using for a few months. I format the card in the camera before taking pics and take the card out put it in the computer to download the pics. The computer won't read the card and when I put it back in the camera it automatically wants to format it again and I lose my pics. It does not happen everytime. So that leaves me even more confused.
I just took pics of my stepsons…
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Posted on June 14, 2009 at 5:22pm — 10 Comments
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Take the golden opportunity to put your camera on a tripod after dark, and open the shutter, and run around the scene flashing your flash off the camera lighting the scene randomly. You might want to also put colored gels (cellophane) over the flash too for bright color effects. ASA 200, shutter set to 2+ minutes or more at F5.6 I bet you'll LOVE the results. Have a kid walk from left side of frame to right, and flash them several times while they are walking. It will look like a crowd!
Lexar is pretty good to its professional users. Give them a good explanation, and you'll likely be surprised with a whole new card. Especially if you send the broken one back to them so they can learn what went wrong.
Good luck!
Bob O.
sounds like the camera is messing up the card format to me.
What kind of computer are you inserting the card reader into?
There are several different file recovery programs I could recommend, but I am a Macintosh user, and know them best.
Let me know.
If you have another CF card, take that one and run some tests on your camera. shoot a few images on the second card, and see if it misbehaves like the first card does. If it does, then it is the camera messing it up for sure. If it works fine, then I suspect it is the first card itself dying on you. The recovery program might be able to save SOME of your previously shot images.
Bob O'Lary
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