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I know that some people (including my own children) have labeled xywrite
users Luddites but I have found that this user group is among the most
technically sophisticated groups I know of, a fact that Robert in a different
context has commented on. My friend Norman Friedman, who is the
author of more than 25 books published by the Naval Institute Press, has a
serious technical camera problem and was wondering if members of the list
could held him or recommend someone who could hold him.
He wrote me as follows:
The camera is a Canon A620, and the card is a 2 Gbyte SD card.
It is conceivable that I messed
up the card myself by hitting the wrong button the day before the crash, but it kept registering shots after that. When I turned on the camera the next morning, it registered 'Memory Problem.' I pulled out the card and re-inserted it. The camera then acted as though nothing was on the card (rather than the approximately 2000 shots I had done the previous day). I immediately pulled it and substituted another card, which worked perfectly. When I got home I put the card in a reader (a Wolverine with a 60 G hard disk, that I use to dump cards before dumping the images into the computer). The Wolverine refused to 'mount' the card; on one occasion it read 'no partition detected.' That suggests that the card's equivalent of a root directory had been wiped out, and that the images may survive, albeit not in proper order. I should explain that I was using the camera for research, shooting pictures of pages of documents in an archive (in this case, the British Public Record Office -- World War I era stuff). I was shooting at minimum resolution, which makes text readable but allows me to stuff very large numbers of images onto one card. This really works rather well; it is like having a personal Xerox machine but not having to carry a ton of paper. But it does not work too well if you get home and find that you are without the goodies. Any advice will be extremely welcome. |