Why do photographers lose photos in the field?

Hi Eucris,

Correct, the post was rapidly removed from Fred Miranda. I reached out to them but haven't heard back. Potentially it could have been a good forum for this. DPReview, that's weird - I couldn't find it either. I reached out to the admin who instructed me how to post. It was up for some time, but seems to have been removed now. Waiting for a response. Thanks for uncovering this! Regarding DIYhotography here is the link. I would not have imagined that getting community responses is the hardest part!!!! By the way, if you have ideas for additional forums that could help, please let me know!!!!

Thanks,

- Michel
 
Eucris said:
I have done some research and the results are as follows:

DPReview: No trace of the OP or of his survey.
Fred Miranda: The post containing his survey has been deleted.
The Photo Forum: No activity against the OP’s account which suggests that the survey was deleted.
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It’s good to be cautious, but my own checks were more positive. The DIYPhotography feature is still up, in particular. I also saw the search snippet from DPReview, though I’m not sure why the link is no longer working. Perhaps @NaturEye can clarify?
 
I have never had a card failure or lost image.
So what?
All systems and mechanisms have failures
How would this survey be able to distinguish between a card failure and a camera system failure.
For me at least failures are vanishingly rare, as to be disregarded in any practical sense.
That being so I can see no reason to take any special precautions against such losses, beyond not using very old or damaged card or a camera that that has proved unreliable in this regard. On cameras where it is possible to clean card connections it would be advisable to do so when necessary.

It is probably advisable to check satisfactory image writing to a card when inserted, though I suspect that cameras do this automatically when they are turned on, as when I have omitted to to replace a card it always reminds me of the fact.
 
TimHughes said:
It’s good to be cautious, but my own checks were more positive. The DIYPhotography feature is still up, in particular. I also saw the search snippet from DPReview, though I’m not sure why the link is no longer working. Perhaps @NaturEye can clarify?
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After the comment by Eucris, I checked DPReview and couldn't locate the link. I reached out the admin who helped me post it in the first place. Waiting for a reply.
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
I have never had a card failure or lost image.
So what?
All systems and mechanisms have failures
How would this survey be able to distinguish between a card failure and a camera system failure.
For me at least failures are vanishingly rare, as to be disregarded in any practical sense.
That being so I can see no reason to take any special precautions against such losses, beyond not using very old or damaged card or a camera that that has proved unreliable in this regard. On cameras where it is possible to clean card connections it would be advisable to do so when necessary.

It is probably advisable to check satisfactory image writing to a card when inserted, though I suspect that cameras do this automatically when they are turned on, as when I have omitted to to replace a card it always reminds me of the fact.
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Hello Terrywoodenpic,

I have never had a failure either, but have friends that have. Some failures are human error and from what I am seeing so far there are write corruption failures reported. I think that even though failures may be rare, this makes the study more interesting.

Card manufacturers provide recovery software. Why is that? Is it useful? How often is it used? Also, many cameras today have dual slots. How does it help, if at all? The survey is addressing these questions and more. No guarantee I will succeed, but I hope to be able to answer these questions.

Need everyone's help getting as many responses as possible.
 
NaturEye said:
Hello Terrywoodenpic,

I have never had a failure either, but have friends that have. Some failures are human error and from what I am seeing so far there are write corruption failures reported. I think that even though failures may be rare, this makes the study more interesting.

Card manufacturers provide recovery software. Why is that? Is it useful? How often is it used? Also, many cameras today have dual slots. How does it help, if at all? The survey is addressing these questions and more. No guarantee I will succeed, but I hope to be able to answer these questions.

Need everyone's help getting as many responses as possible.
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Card recovery software is mostly useful to recover images from a cards that he been reformatted. Reformatting does not delete images or scramble them. It just removes oll the indexing to them . I have done once and it worked just fine but I had to rename the files. It will not recover over written or corrupted images.
None of my cameras have dual slots. However they are a good belt and braces option for professionals, and those who like to shoot raw and jpeg for quick press downloads but keep original untouched high definition originals for Later processing.
I almost always shoot raw.
 
Hello Eucris, all,
Thanks for point out the removal from DPReview. The admin helped me repost it.
 
Just finished the survey. There’s nothing more heart-wrenching than a 'Card Error' message in the field. Really appreciate you putting this together to help the community build better backup habits.
 
alexning said:
Just finished the survey. There’s nothing more heart-wrenching than a 'Card Error' message in the field. Really appreciate you putting this together to help the community build better backup habits.
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Thanks!!! I hope I will succeed and be able to provide valuable recommendations to the community
 
StephenM said:
The only in the field failure I've had was an improperly loaded film holder allowing the sheet to fall out in the camera. This was clearly user error, not camera fault. Meaning I couldn't tick any of the answers you allow to the first two questions, and therefore couldn't even reach page two.

If, as you clearly do, you wish to limit this to digital photographers, perhaps you should say so up front.
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my thoughts exactly.
 
The one comment I’d make is that the early questions are about my current methods, and the one time I had a corrupt card I only had a single card slot.
OK. 2 comments, I selected ‘Partial loss’, but the reality is that for a card with hundreds of images, I managed to recover all bar one.
 
Phil V said:
The one comment I’d make is that the early questions are about my current methods, and the one time I had a corrupt card I only had a single card slot.
OK. 2 comments, I selected ‘Partial loss’, but the reality is that for a card with hundreds of images, I managed to recover all bar one.
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Hi Phil, I understand. I was aware this could happen as I designed the survey. I opted to keep it simple, even at the expense of inaccuracies capturing cases like yours. With a sufficiently large population of answers, any such limitation is likely to lose importance. Thanks for supporting!
 
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