Hello, I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
Recently I had my pictures taken from my camera and put onto a C.D. in a special camera shop which appeared to work fine. However, later on when I scrolled through the pictures on the camera, several of the photos (which worked well earlier 'could not be read'. After about 2 weeks (im not sure if this was completely related) the memory card could not be read at all. I dowant to protect my photos by putting them on C.D. Its just that I almost lost about 100 pictures of Moscow, the Trans-Mancurian railway and Beijing so im quite paranoid. Does anybody think it was due to putting the camera into a computer, or is it safe to try again? Cheers. (oh it was an XD card for a fuji finepix camera, not sure if this will help?)
Thanks again.
Where did you buy the card? Many online are counterfeits like eBay.
If you don't use windows and stop device before you pull out .. that can corrupt the card as well.
Should format after each new use on the camera rather than computer.
Not sure what you did or the store did.
To be safe many pple carry their own portable hdd so they do it themself or they do it themselve on the internet cafes.
Or just carry enof mem cards on a short trip, most pple don't do long trips. 4/8gb should be ample.
A few things spring to mind - firstly, it's possible that the computer you tried reading it on has a slightly dusty CD-ROM drive - that'll give you odd errors from time to time - as would a failing CD-ROM drive.
CDs are very sensitive to scratches, so keep them somewhere they're not going to get scratched/bent - a metal CD case would be a good idea.
It's also possible that the CD writer itself wasn't particularly happy, or that the disc they used wasn't very good...
xD, particularly the TypeH ones don't always work properly with all devices - my CompactDrive PD70X always fails verify them correctly, but my NextoCF ND2525 reads/verifies the same card perfectly.
Using the card itself on an unknown computer does risk virus attack - if the machine it's used on is infected, you may end up with your photos destroyed.
Always use the camera format function to clear a card after use, never format/erase using the computer.
Total amateur here, who was highly suspicious of having my photos on digital format, but the more I give it a chance, the more I am so happy I did! LOVE how easy/quick and cheap it is!
Just spent a few hours making some cds and getting actual photos printed out from my digitals....and suprisingly absolutely nothing went wrong:)
I know what you mean though, worrying that photos will disapear! That's the part I still worry about...hope you figure out what went wrong so it doesnt happen again--v frustrating for you!
It's not like one never lost images when shooting film.
I've had a couple of rolls mailed off for processing which never came home.
The last ~30 rolls that I had processed got "cooked" and had two nice big scratches all the way down all ~1,000 negatives.
I even had one roll crushed when the clerk dropped the cannister behind the counter and another clerked stepped on it.
(Total disclosure: I managed to screw up a roll or three when developing my own B&W.)
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