james_barnaby

One more update

A program called ZAR was able to get all but the grooms formals off the card in both Raw and Jpeg.

In fact none of the programs tried could find the grooms shots, which were the last shots taken.

In any event, thanks to the forum for inspiring me to try recovering anything at all.

Well, it looks like I was told wrong, at least in part.

So far one program has pulled the JPGs off but none have found the raws. I shoot both in case raw editing isn't required, in this case it may have just saved my butt. lol

I still hope to get the Raws back but 157 formal shots are better in jpg than nothing.

I did this same thing over the weekend but luckily realized it immediately so I was able to re shoot the formals and haven't touched the card since. I'm not a pro and this was a gift. It worked out except for having to tell everyone about it, which had to be done so I could re shoot.

I got lucky to say the least. I knew better and I have no excuse for the screw up. It wont happen again.

Unfortunately I use Oly gear and have been told that once the card is re formatted all images are lost, not that I wont try anyways. If anyone knows of a way to recover from a card re formatted by a Oly cam. I sure would like to know.

Someone asked about the E 3 and it'd dual card slots. The xd card slot is good for additional space but there is no means of writing to both cards at once that I know of. You could copy the images to it as a back up but it takes forever and is limited to 2 gig cards.

I do hope to continue on the way to shooting weddings, aside for the above, I really enjoyed it. I'll wait till I have taken more classes and put in some time as a second/ assistant before I'd ever charge someone.

BTW

This is my fist post here, I was directed to this thread after discussing my issue on another forum.