How to make my weekend suck less
After a fun night at Rocky on Saturday, I went with funjon, kikikimi and a few others up to the Marin Headlands, north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and a bit west too.
Happily snapping pictures in the area, it all came to a sudden halt: "CF ERROR."
Power cycled the camera (Canon XTi/400D) resulted in the same error. Switching to the backup card allowed picture taking to resume, but putting the card in another camera (funjon's Canon 5DmkII) caused the camera to ask if it should format the card.
Dejected, I continued shooting on the backup card and secondary camera (point and shoot Canon SD950IS), and grumbled at my potential loss. The little point and shoot has a few nifty gimmicks like panoramic assist and time lapse video to keep things interesting.
Once we got home, funjon unleashed some photo recovery software on the bad CF card, and it only made it 558 pictures before stopping progress.
A bit of googling found a random open source product called PhotoRec, short for photo recovery. Unleashing this software on the card netted over 1,000 pictures including the previously-thought-to-be-lost ones. Of the ones taken Sunday, only 2 were corrupt.
Once I get a bit of time, I'll start sharing more of the recovered pictures on Flickr and my own photo gallery.
Happily snapping pictures in the area, it all came to a sudden halt: "CF ERROR."
Power cycled the camera (Canon XTi/400D) resulted in the same error. Switching to the backup card allowed picture taking to resume, but putting the card in another camera (funjon's Canon 5DmkII) caused the camera to ask if it should format the card.
Dejected, I continued shooting on the backup card and secondary camera (point and shoot Canon SD950IS), and grumbled at my potential loss. The little point and shoot has a few nifty gimmicks like panoramic assist and time lapse video to keep things interesting.
Once we got home, funjon unleashed some photo recovery software on the bad CF card, and it only made it 558 pictures before stopping progress.
A bit of googling found a random open source product called PhotoRec, short for photo recovery. Unleashing this software on the card netted over 1,000 pictures including the previously-thought-to-be-lost ones. Of the ones taken Sunday, only 2 were corrupt.
Once I get a bit of time, I'll start sharing more of the recovered pictures on Flickr and my own photo gallery.