Ever had a card fail?

[classcams]

Only card failure I ever had was when 1st starting out. I had been using card prob 3 occasions. I was then doing some house cleaning on p.c. and decided to re-format my card. In the p.c. slot. ***! why I dont know it just seemed like a good idea. It would not work in the camera again.
I am lead to believe its a different format process, never found out true reason but since then, 10 years on, never had anothe fail once I have down loaded and backed up pics I use the camera to clean and format.

Back in the days of yore I was the proud owner of FUJI cameras. One day ,like a fool I formatted the card in my PC. Never worked after that. It wouldn`t reformat in the camera. I just threw it in the drawer. Some time later I purchased a Fuji 602 camera. I put this card in, and guess what, it formatted OK.

 

[Markk]

1 Random failure on a 4gig kingston card. Was sitting in a drawer for a month. Popped it into the camera...corrupt. Worked perfectly before that for about 1.5 years.

 

[martyp]

Personally, I have never had a failure with any card. I always buy decent media though. Currently using a 8Gb Sandisk Extreme 60Mb/s UDMA CF card.

At work, I've seen a few failed shots on cards and couldn't recover the images. Not sure on the make but without doubt they would've been cheap ones and were probably used again after a quick format.

 

[DrRusty]

Card failures on various cards, Sandisk, Kingston...

Initially put down as card faults, but later couldn't exclude a fault with the camera ??

All images recovered on each occation, but I had try different software until I got one that actually worked.

 

[Chris L]

It wasn't with one of the cameras listed here, was it?

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/c...oryid=139&modelid=11154&keycode=2112&id=27683

I've only had one failure and it lost me an entire studio session around 4 years ago. It was while using a 1GB Lexar Pro CF card with a 20D. I failed to recover any of the images and so as a precaution I replaced the two Lexar cards I'd previously used with a couple of Sandisk cards.

I have stuck with Sandisk since and currently use a mix of their new 8GB, 30Mb/s Ultras and some older 4GB 30Mb/s Extreme IIIs with no problems. I've also used an 8GB Transcend CF card for the best part of a year with no problems.

 

[hollis_f]

I've been using CF cards for about 17 years (I've still got my first 0.008 GB card) and the only one that's failed on me was one I was using in a PDA - and I removed it while it was being written to, so I can't really blame the card for that.

I've just bought a 32GB Sandisk. I'd much rather have all my eggs in one very safe basket, rather than trying to juggle several baskets of eggs.

 

[redhed17]

I used to have a few MyMemory 2Gb CF cards which used to corrupt the odd frame, especially during a continuous shooting sequence. They were supposedly fast cards too.

I only use Sandisk now, and haven't had any problems. I wouldn't go with too large capacities though, just in case.

 

[BKphotography]

Had 2 cards die on me, both Lexars.

Lexar are pants.

 

[sworks]

I had a Kingston 4gb card fail last week, I managed to recover the images as a thumbnail but they wouldn't open in lightroom or cs3. I now save to cf card and sd card in camera!