Yesterday I was trying to catch a few shots of my guy in action at the state division track meet. I had my trusty k-5 plus 50-135 combo. I had just reformatted the sd card, and took some pics, just to chimp. So far, so good. The race started -- the one mile event -- and I shot off a burst as the runners came past me. Since they have to travel another 400 meters before they come around again, I took the opportunity to peek at what I got... only the previews weren't yet available. OK, I wait.... but the little red light stayed on... and wouldn't go off... and now here the runners come again (66 seconds later).... crap, there they go, and still my camera is hung up. No shooting, no previews, just a little red light. I turn off the camera. Red light remains, and on the top lcd screen, the "image remaining" count still shows, approx 216 shots left. Then, I forget exactly what I did -- probably turned it off & on, swore at it a few times, and cheered for my runner -- but in the end, "memory card error" on the back screen, and a remaining image count now at "0".
And then the race was over. I've never had a memory card fail on me this way... it was traumatic! I think it's just the card -- I popped another one in, and there were no other problems. Does this behavior fit the profile of sd card failures you've known? How much worse do you think I made the situation with my frantic button-pushing? ;) Thanks, -c -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
