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What if my camera did NOT have dual card slots ?!
Anyka:
I have a Canon 5D IV. It has dual card slots, and before every photo session, I format both cards.
After last Maternity session, my Sandisk 64Gb failed, but no panic, I just took the CF card and copied all photos to my hard disk.
No problem ... but what if I did NOT have two cards - it would have been quite a panic.
So I thought : let's take the defective card and act as if I really needed to recover the photos.
Mind you, I do not even know if the photos were recorded on this card, because possibly it got defective right after formatting.
I googled on "recovery software", found "Recuva", did a "deep scan" ... and : nothing! Though the reviews said it could recover photos even after formatting (so in theory, it should at leastt find the photos of the PREVIOUS photo session).
Interesting note : this is the very reason why I won't be buying the EOS R or any other great new camera with only 1 slot!
I'm keeping this card, just for testing. Did any of you ever recover photos with a defective card, without going to a professional recovery company? If so, which software did the trick?
Mimi the Cat:
I use Sony and they have single card slots and in 10 years I never had a defective card.
I always format and check the card before and during shooting and carry a spare card.
Anyka:
--- Quote from: Bad Robot on December 11, 2019, 03:02 ---I use Sony and they have single card slots and in 10 years I never had a defective card.
I always format and check the card before and during shooting and carry a spare card.
--- End quote ---
This is the first time for me too, in 18 years ...
georgep7:
The period 2013 - 2018 i was shooting events.
canon t3i & canon 7d. Shooting video means that sd /cf cards were literally boiling inside bodies.
I have scratched two lenses, killed a body, dropeed almost everything from recorders to a sigma 70-200 to 17-55 that broke dead.
The only card related accident was that once I broke the t3i SD lock mecha while removing the SD.
Plus lots of human failures like not setting mike to extrernal in XA10 camcorder leading to a muted wedding studio session.
Edit: XA10 wrote thousands of hours in internal HDD. Never used dual card slots.
Edit II, bringing back memories, I can recall all camera electronics bricking or shutting down from heat especially in hot mediterranean summers (except XA10).
Sh*t happens. I prefer to have a backup body recording even just a tiny GoPro shooting wide rather than this mostly Youtube driven "OMG! no dual card!? what a failure..." crap.
:)
Chichikov:
I had more cameras with dual cards… I never used more than one card…
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