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My friend pinged me to come take pics of her daughter playing volleyball. I thought sure, nice to catch up with her and maybe snap couple pics of the game too.
The game was early (for me) on Saturday at 2:30pm
So wake up, grab my gear and rush out the door. Quickly checking the camera bag, I got R5, my 3 lenses that I might need and put in 2 cards from my office desk. Great.
Arrive at the location and open my camera bag.
JFCMF*&^!@#$&%%
Like seriously. What is this, amateur hour? After 20 seconds of cursing to myself, light bulb moment. One of my principles is that I never run out of batteries, so I had 4 spare batteries in the bag. I can't use them in the grip since I need the sleeve, but taking off the grip, I was able to use them in the camera.
Then checking the memory cards, both had some 10k-14k pics in them. Important stuff I shoot dual card RAW (CFX) + JPEG (SD), less important JPEG + JPEG, and maybe 10% is just for fun at single card JPEG. I was 90% sure I had back-up both cards on my PC, but the 10% left me enough uncertainty that I shouldn't format the cards until I confirm. I was lazy to check how much space I had left on each card, so I just went single JPEG and auto-switch cards. In the end it was just some few fun snaps of my friend's daughter, not like I'd be delivering to customer.
So I snap pics here and there, but seems the other parents got excited to learn there was "pro" photographer, so ok fine I'll take more than few to cover most of the team at least click or two.
After game get home, about to eat dinner and I put my CFX card to the reader. Some reason Windows file explorer froze (not responding on the title bar). Didn't think much about that, went to eat dinner. After dinner, checking PC again the reader drive letter was not present in the folders. I unplug the reader and plug it in again.
$#^@^%$
Windows was telling me I need to format the card.
Wrong day to quit drinking. What the f??? I've shot good amount over half million pics and I never had lost one image. I use reputable card brands and buy from reputable stores only, so losing data was expected to be rare. And today was the day when I shot single card only.
Quick try the card in the camera, and camera also tells me I must format the card.
Then google data recovery software. I tried multiple free ones, after short and some cases long scan time, most of them said there's ~20k files found but they weren't able to recover any. Few of the non-free ones said they found the files, but I had to pay to recover. I wasn't sure if they would actually work, since the free ones found the files too but couldn't recover. Finally one of them (DMDE) let me recover first 4000 for free and I was able to confirm it works. Paid $20 for full version to recover all files.
In the end happy ending but I paid $20 for the lesson.
Yea don't do like I did. From now on, I'll double check the camera has batteries inserted in the grip, and pretty sure I will always shoot dual-card from now on even for small fun shoots.
Btw volleyball is tough as there's always someone blocking the action. I don't know yet where I should position myself on the field to get good view on the player(s) I want to shoot.
The game was early (for me) on Saturday at 2:30pm
So wake up, grab my gear and rush out the door. Quickly checking the camera bag, I got R5, my 3 lenses that I might need and put in 2 cards from my office desk. Great.Arrive at the location and open my camera bag.
JFCMF*&^!@#$&%%
Like seriously. What is this, amateur hour? After 20 seconds of cursing to myself, light bulb moment. One of my principles is that I never run out of batteries, so I had 4 spare batteries in the bag. I can't use them in the grip since I need the sleeve, but taking off the grip, I was able to use them in the camera.
Then checking the memory cards, both had some 10k-14k pics in them. Important stuff I shoot dual card RAW (CFX) + JPEG (SD), less important JPEG + JPEG, and maybe 10% is just for fun at single card JPEG. I was 90% sure I had back-up both cards on my PC, but the 10% left me enough uncertainty that I shouldn't format the cards until I confirm. I was lazy to check how much space I had left on each card, so I just went single JPEG and auto-switch cards. In the end it was just some few fun snaps of my friend's daughter, not like I'd be delivering to customer.
So I snap pics here and there, but seems the other parents got excited to learn there was "pro" photographer, so ok fine I'll take more than few to cover most of the team at least click or two.
After game get home, about to eat dinner and I put my CFX card to the reader. Some reason Windows file explorer froze (not responding on the title bar). Didn't think much about that, went to eat dinner. After dinner, checking PC again the reader drive letter was not present in the folders. I unplug the reader and plug it in again.
- Join to view EXIF data.
$#^@^%$
Windows was telling me I need to format the card.
Wrong day to quit drinking. What the f??? I've shot good amount over half million pics and I never had lost one image. I use reputable card brands and buy from reputable stores only, so losing data was expected to be rare. And today was the day when I shot single card only.
Quick try the card in the camera, and camera also tells me I must format the card.
Then google data recovery software. I tried multiple free ones, after short and some cases long scan time, most of them said there's ~20k files found but they weren't able to recover any. Few of the non-free ones said they found the files, but I had to pay to recover. I wasn't sure if they would actually work, since the free ones found the files too but couldn't recover. Finally one of them (DMDE) let me recover first 4000 for free and I was able to confirm it works. Paid $20 for full version to recover all files.
In the end happy ending but I paid $20 for the lesson.
- Join to view EXIF data.
- Join to view EXIF data.
Yea don't do like I did. From now on, I'll double check the camera has batteries inserted in the grip, and pretty sure I will always shoot dual-card from now on even for small fun shoots.
Btw volleyball is tough as there's always someone blocking the action. I don't know yet where I should position myself on the field to get good view on the player(s) I want to shoot.
. Check the battery level- 56%. Wow, didn’t realize it was that low. No fear, I have an extra charged battery in the bag. Pop that battery in- uh oh, it’s at 18%, what?!. Plug that battery into an outlet behind me in the gym. It has about 90mins to charge during the JV match before varsity starts. 
