Not sure whether to put this on here or the Tech thread - feel free to move it BG!
I have a Fuji S7000 camera with a 1GB CF (Type II) memory card which thinks its funny hide things from me.
Have just returned from a two week holiday where my holiday "snaps" tend to be of the collecting reference details for future paintings that are sold to finance the next holiday etc, so I'm not amused by losing around 200 or so pictures of Corfiot villages and such like.
Before I started the holiday I "Erased All" from the media card (not formated, just erased) and set the resolution to 6mp which should have given me enough room for 340 or so photos.
In the first week I did notice one occasion where the camera failed to save a photo and one photo which gave a "Read Error" message when trying to review it, you could scroll backwards beyond that bad image though and still see everything else. The only other point to note was that when scrolling forward from the last image it also gave a "Read Error" message when normally it would take you back to the first image in a scrolling type menu.
During the second week I suddenly noticed that while the image count was still incrementing correctly I now only had around 10 images viewable instead of around 200 but it still continued to save additional images correctly - didn't panic too much at that point because I know that I DEFINTELY hadn't pressed the erase option (you have to confirm several times) and once before in the past I had accidently pressed the "Protect All" option which prevents you from reviewing/deleting them.
Have just done a "Unprotect All" option this morning but can still only see 20 or so images.
Not happy.
So, is there any way to read anything that is on that card, any magical software that I can download that will reveal all of my next three months reference work or is this a write off and do I start to browse the various photobucket type sites to snaffle other peoples reference photos of Corfu Town ?
I knew I should have taken an easel and some paint...
