Images gone from off-brand SD card . . .

<p>I shot a nice landscape sequence over the weekend, only to have them not show up on the card when I got it home. I shot a birthday party on the same card; they are fine. The landscapes I shot earlier on the same card are gone. I remember the day being very damp with intermittent rain. I also remember reviewing some of the pics. I don't think the fault is with my K-r. Beware these cheap off-brand cards. This one is an 8 GB Patriot, frequently on sale at electronics store like Fry's.</p>

<p>They may not be gone yet, can you see them when you use the card in the camera on the rear LCD? Also have you tried using a recovery program?</p>

<p>Could they be in a different folder on the card?</p>

 

<p>I once used Photorecovery (IIRC) in a similar situation (bad card) and it found my images.</p>

<p>Same here, but just don't shoot any more with the card. You don't want the old images over written.</p>

<p>I don't consider Patriot Memory to be off-brand. They might not be as well-known in the photography world as SanDisk, but in the PC memory world they're considered one of the better / more-reputable brands. I've been using their stuff for years and never had a problem.</p>

<p>Most of their SD cards come with a 5-year warranty. If you suspect there's a problem with the card, contact Patriot and they may be able to replace it. (But before you do that, try to rescue your images from the card.)</p>

<p>There's always the problem of counterfeiting, where a 1GB card is sold as a 16GB, by changing some metadata in the card. Works fine until you use the first 1GB, and the second GB is really the same memory as the first GB.</p>

<p>Sounds like John's reason. Your situation may be better than mine. The images on my card are probably intact - I've just lost the card.</p>

<p>I've had decent luck with Patriot. Where did you buy your memory card? Plus, I've had Sandisk fail too. An isolated incident, not knowing the circumstances, I can't comment one way or the other, but Patriot is a well-known enough brand that if you bought the card at a local store, I wouldn't have a problem with.</p>

<p>In case one of you gets a case of dumb as I did; I had forgotten that the shots in question were RAW's, w/ no accompanying jpgs. I had forgotten that my card reader doesn't pick these up. I have to treat the card reader as just another drive and drag and drop them over. Sheesh. It's not the K-r, the card or even the reader, it's ME.</p>

<p>We all have those moments! Try shooting outside after just leaving the church and at ISO6400 and wondering why you can't get the exposures to work......</p>

<p>what kind of card reader? they usually just treat cards as a hard drive. or is it the software that ignores them?</p>