Forum: Photography


Subject: Archiving Digital Images

DHolman opened this issue on Feb 20, 2005 ยท 15 posts


JordyArt posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 12:31 PM

GRRRR!!!! What about when you don't get the chance to archive the buggers?!? When one of our company vehicles (70+ cars) has an accident, I'm the gopher who takes the pictures of the damage for the insurance claims. So, after the bout of snow this morning and the anticipated shunt I toddles myself down to the garage and takes some pics. Normally I just upload them at home and print them at work, but today we decided to cut the timescale and bought a card reader. My 128mb card at the moment had some un-loaded pictures of my Mini and the work in progress. Sets the card reader up, puts the card in - Card Not Readable error. Puts it in camera.... Card Not Formatted. AAAAAAAARGH!!! Formats card. Goes down, more pics. Comes back. Decides not to hot-swap the card into the reader this time. Pics there, last one claims not in the right format. Puts it back in the camera to view it. Camera has none of it and locks all the pictures. Format card. Third time lucky. Goes back out, more pics, same error as at first, card has to be re-formatted. Last set of pics, I decide to upload at home. Tomorrow the reader is going back. Trouble is, it's gouged 2 lines into the back of my 128 mb card. Just viewed them, and one of the pics is corrupt...... Boy am I gonna have fun in the shop tomorrow. Prepare for evidence photo's of bloodied hands after I murder someone.... (",)