Technical Difficulties

It's never happened to me before, I swear!
A card failure while out shooting!.
For years I carried at least one spare SD card with me, just in case. But no card ever failed, and I suppose at some point I just forgot that it even happens.

Yes, that was daft of me. But today a card failed, and I had to return home and see what, if anything, was salvageable.

I don't generally "chimp" when I am taking photos, but I do have the camera set to show the image for 1 second after taking the shot. I rarely look at that, waiting until I get home as a rule. But I glanced at the back of the camera after taking a shot of a hoverfly on a catspaw flower, and it was just a mess of psychodelic pixels. This made me check the other images and many were the same... oh dear.

Anyway, there were enough shots to choose a Blip, so not quite the emergency it had seemed.

I formatted the card, but a few test shots revealed that it hadn't helped. For some unknown reason, the card is beyond redemption and has now gone into File Thirteen (as my dad used to call the bin.)

Fortunately, I have plenty of unused cards. But lesson learned: ALWAYS TAKE A BACK UP SD CARD (or even better two.)

Insect fans can find a bumble bee in extras, and a hover fly