new microdrive problem...

[Ethan Nicholas]

Saw a problem the other day which I don't believe anyone
has yet reported, so I wanted to go ahead and share it.

My wife and I were shooting a figure skating show. I
was shooting at this particular moment, and just out of
curiosity I checked how many pictures I had shot so far.
The count was 55. I shot for a little while more, and
then during a lull happened to glance down and notice
that the count was still 55. Uh-oh. The card access
LED was on, and the number of pictures in the buffer
was steadily counting down. The number of pictures on
the card wasn't budging. When the buffer emptied, the
hard drive light stayed on. I fired off a few pictures,
and everything behaved normally except for the images
not seeming to actually be written to the card.

Fearing the worst, I waited for a little while and
turned the camera off. It refused to turn off, although
it still reacted to most commands (it was still perfectly
happy to shoot pictures) so it wasn't completely locked
up. Without much alternative, I pulled the battery and
plugged it back in. Witnessed the exact same behavior,
and tried it again just to be sure. Finally I formatted
the card and held my breath... thankfully, everything
starting working again at that point. The rest of the
evenning passed uneventfully, and we filled up the card
and were able to successfully retrieve every single
picture from it.

Anyone else ever see similar behavior?

Ethan

 

[Ian]

Saw a problem the other day which I don't believe anyone
has yet reported, so I wanted to go ahead and share it.

My wife and I were shooting a figure skating show. I
was shooting at this particular moment, and just out of
curiosity I checked how many pictures I had shot so far.
The count was 55. I shot for a little while more, and
then during a lull happened to glance down and notice
that the count was still 55. Uh-oh. The card access
LED was on, and the number of pictures in the buffer
was steadily counting down. The number of pictures on
the card wasn't budging. When the buffer emptied, the
hard drive light stayed on. I fired off a few pictures,
and everything behaved normally except for the images
not seeming to actually be written to the card.

Fearing the worst, I waited for a little while and
turned the camera off. It refused to turn off, although
it still reacted to most commands (it was still perfectly
happy to shoot pictures) so it wasn't completely locked
up. Without much alternative, I pulled the battery and
plugged it back in. Witnessed the exact same behavior,
and tried it again just to be sure. Finally I formatted
the card and held my breath... thankfully, everything
starting working again at that point. The rest of the
evenning passed uneventfully, and we filled up the card
and were able to successfully retrieve every single
picture from it.

Anyone else ever see similar behavior?

Ethan

Ethan,

Just had a very similar problem on a location shoot. Wasn't using a microdrive but Sandisk 128MB CompactFlash. Counter froze and camera wouldn't turn off...although it worked when I turned it on again. Finally had to remove battery and reformat the card. Must be a glitch in the firmware.

Ian

 

[Paul W Gillespie]

What kind of digital camera are you guys using?

http://[email protected]

Saw a problem the other day which I don't believe anyone
has yet reported, so I wanted to go ahead and share it.

My wife and I were shooting a figure skating show. I
was shooting at this particular moment, and just out of
curiosity I checked how many pictures I had shot so far.
The count was 55. I shot for a little while more, and
then during a lull happened to glance down and notice
that the count was still 55. Uh-oh. The card access
LED was on, and the number of pictures in the buffer
was steadily counting down. The number of pictures on
the card wasn't budging. When the buffer emptied, the
hard drive light stayed on. I fired off a few pictures,
and everything behaved normally except for the images
not seeming to actually be written to the card.

Fearing the worst, I waited for a little while and
turned the camera off. It refused to turn off, although
it still reacted to most commands (it was still perfectly
happy to shoot pictures) so it wasn't completely locked
up. Without much alternative, I pulled the battery and
plugged it back in. Witnessed the exact same behavior,
and tried it again just to be sure. Finally I formatted
the card and held my breath... thankfully, everything
starting working again at that point. The rest of the
evenning passed uneventfully, and we filled up the card
and were able to successfully retrieve every single
picture from it.

Anyone else ever see similar behavior?

Ethan

 

[Pete Biro]

What cameras??? D1???

Saw a problem the other day which I don't believe anyone
has yet reported, so I wanted to go ahead and share it.

My wife and I were shooting a figure skating show. I
was shooting at this particular moment, and just out of
curiosity I checked how many pictures I had shot so far.
The count was 55. I shot for a little while more, and
then during a lull happened to glance down and notice
that the count was still 55. Uh-oh. The card access
LED was on, and the number of pictures in the buffer
was steadily counting down. The number of pictures on
the card wasn't budging. When the buffer emptied, the
hard drive light stayed on. I fired off a few pictures,
and everything behaved normally except for the images
not seeming to actually be written to the card.

Fearing the worst, I waited for a little while and
turned the camera off. It refused to turn off, although
it still reacted to most commands (it was still perfectly
happy to shoot pictures) so it wasn't completely locked
up. Without much alternative, I pulled the battery and
plugged it back in. Witnessed the exact same behavior,
and tried it again just to be sure. Finally I formatted
the card and held my breath... thankfully, everything
starting working again at that point. The rest of the
evenning passed uneventfully, and we filled up the card
and were able to successfully retrieve every single
picture from it.

Anyone else ever see similar behavior?

Ethan

Ethan,

Just had a very similar problem on a location shoot. Wasn't using a
microdrive but Sandisk 128MB CompactFlash. Counter froze and camera
wouldn't turn off...although it worked when I turned it on again. Finally
had to remove battery and reformat the card. Must be a glitch in the
firmware.

Ian

 

[Ethan Nicholas]

D1. Whoops.

Ethan

http://[email protected]

Saw a problem the other day which I don't believe anyone
has yet reported, so I wanted to go ahead and share it.

My wife and I were shooting a figure skating show. I
was shooting at this particular moment, and just out of
curiosity I checked how many pictures I had shot so far.
The count was 55. I shot for a little while more, and
then during a lull happened to glance down and notice
that the count was still 55. Uh-oh. The card access
LED was on, and the number of pictures in the buffer
was steadily counting down. The number of pictures on
the card wasn't budging. When the buffer emptied, the
hard drive light stayed on. I fired off a few pictures,
and everything behaved normally except for the images
not seeming to actually be written to the card.

Fearing the worst, I waited for a little while and
turned the camera off. It refused to turn off, although
it still reacted to most commands (it was still perfectly
happy to shoot pictures) so it wasn't completely locked
up. Without much alternative, I pulled the battery and
plugged it back in. Witnessed the exact same behavior,
and tried it again just to be sure. Finally I formatted
the card and held my breath... thankfully, everything
starting working again at that point. The rest of the
evenning passed uneventfully, and we filled up the card
and were able to successfully retrieve every single
picture from it.

Anyone else ever see similar behavior?

Ethan

 

[david ayoub]

i am using a D1 with a 174 Mb microdrive. when i was attempting to review older images (all normal rez) WHEN I HIT 50 OR SO GOING

BACKWARDS THE LCD STUCK on displaying only the 50th picture even though the data displayed was from the correct images. also was getting

several bands of color noise on the D1's LCD display top rows (appx 10% of top horizomtal display). I downloaded all the images just fine and am
about to reformat.

Can these discs get fragmented???? maybe this is what is happening. i had deleted many non sequential images over the last month. may i sould
run nortons on it first??? does that work??

i will let ya know

 

[Ian]

What cameras??? D1???

My apologies too!! Since I'd had the same problem, I automatically assumed Ethan was talking about the D1. I was.

Ian

 

[Ron Reznick]

Ethan,

If you had not formatted that card, you might have found that it started up a new folder and was happily placing the shots in that folder, but counting shots in the first folder. I've seen this before, but it's only happened a couple of times and I do not know what the cause-and-effect is. The last time it happened, I just switched media and looked later. This is what I found on that microdrive. Two folders, with images in both.

That time, what I found was that there were two files with the same file name. I had not noticed that this had occurred the other time, but it's possible that if something makes the camera store another image with the same name, it forces the camera to shoose to create another folder rather than over-writing the first file. Just a guess of course.

Ron

Saw a problem the other day which I don't believe anyone
has yet reported, so I wanted to go ahead and share it.

My wife and I were shooting a figure skating show. I
was shooting at this particular moment, and just out of
curiosity I checked how many pictures I had shot so far.
The count was 55. I shot for a little while more, and
then during a lull happened to glance down and notice
that the count was still 55. Uh-oh. The card access
LED was on, and the number of pictures in the buffer
was steadily counting down. The number of pictures on
the card wasn't budging. When the buffer emptied, the
hard drive light stayed on. I fired off a few pictures,
and everything behaved normally except for the images
not seeming to actually be written to the card.

Fearing the worst, I waited for a little while and
turned the camera off. It refused to turn off, although
it still reacted to most commands (it was still perfectly
happy to shoot pictures) so it wasn't completely locked
up. Without much alternative, I pulled the battery and
plugged it back in. Witnessed the exact same behavior,
and tried it again just to be sure. Finally I formatted
the card and held my breath... thankfully, everything
starting working again at that point. The rest of the
evenning passed uneventfully, and we filled up the card
and were able to successfully retrieve every single
picture from it.

Anyone else ever see similar behavior?

Ethan

 

[Dennis Barnes16823]

Saw a problem the other day which I don't believe anyone
has yet reported, so I wanted to go ahead and share it.

My wife and I were shooting a figure skating show. I
was shooting at this particular moment, and just out of
curiosity I checked how many pictures I had shot so far.
The count was 55. I shot for a little while more, and
then during a lull happened to glance down and notice
that the count was still 55. Uh-oh. The card access
LED was on, and the number of pictures in the buffer
was steadily counting down. The number of pictures on
the card wasn't budging. When the buffer emptied, the
hard drive light stayed on. I fired off a few pictures,
and everything behaved normally except for the images
not seeming to actually be written to the card.
Hi,

Same thing happened to me, but there was no second folder when I downloaded
and when I ran scandisk it said there was an error half way through my
340MB card and it couldn't correct it. So now I have to watch my lcd
and make sure that each new picture has a number in the lower right corner
(which the extra did not have after I reached magic number 198 out of 557
possible photos on the card). I have already sent in one card that that
happened to and I couldn't retrieve the photos on it to get it repaired
or replaced and now it is happening to a new card Microtech sent me to
replace another that went bad earlier. Scary, right?

Fearing the worst, I waited for a little while and
turned the camera off. It refused to turn off, although
it still reacted to most commands (it was still perfectly
happy to shoot pictures) so it wasn't completely locked
up. Without much alternative, I pulled the battery and
plugged it back in. Witnessed the exact same behavior,
and tried it again just to be sure. Finally I formatted
the card and held my breath... thankfully, everything
starting working again at that point. The rest of the
evenning passed uneventfully, and we filled up the card
and were able to successfully retrieve every single
picture from it.

Anyone else ever see similar behavior?

Ethan