RE: OT: corrupted .NEF files
> I've done a good bit of digital capture over the past six years and the > one and only time I had a card problem was when I ejected a card from a > little pocket camera white it was still turned on. D'oh! Even then, > recovery software easily snagged all the images so no big deal. I'll second that. CF has been extremely stable for me. > Canon has been criticized because of their "feature" that turns the card > power off when you open the card access door. Some shooters don't like > this because, if they have shot a long burst, any images still spooling > to the card will be dumped when the door is opened. Personally, I think > it's a nice safety feature, though I might feel differently were I a > sports shooter. Who in their right mind would try to change the card while it's still spooling anyway? I mean, we're only talking about a matter of seconds. I think it's a great feature. > Oh, remember the experts warn you to offload your images to your > computer before going to work on them. Apparently you are tempting the > corruption gods if you work off the card itself. I tend to disagree here. When hooked up to a computer, CF cards are essentially no different than those USB memory sticks you can buy anywhere. When modifying data on a card, you are just as likely to have data corruption as with a removable hard drive (maybe that's what the experts are implying), but that's due to the problems I mentioned before (i.e. removing the device while it's being written to, inherent flaws in the fat16/32 filesystems, etc.). Camden Hardy camden[at]hardyphotography[dot]net http://www.hardyphotography.net
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