Post by BuckSkin on Apr 14, 2020 18:28:37 GMT
To clarify how I do things, I seldom if ever delete an image within the camera; I do all the deleting in the card reader.
I have done this countless times with no negative effects that I have ever noticed and I have some fairly large cards -- 128GB.
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As an example of what can happen to files in an improperly formatted card, back when we got our first digital camera, a Hewlett-Packard MP415, neither of us had the slightest clue what we were doing.
We didn't even have a computer.
I paid more for that simple point-and-shoot camera way back then than some of the new DSLR that we have.
We had absolutely no idea what a GB was and the camera is limited to a 1-GB maximum card; put any larger size card in it and it will turn it into a 1-GB card.
No card came with the camera; I had to buy that separate; I paid nearly fifty bucks for a simple 1-GB card.
Not knowing any better, the wife would edit pictures and save them back to the card; friends and relatives with different brands of cameras would share various pictures with her by using their computer to put these images on the HP's card; a bunch of old family photos got scanned and put on that card; all of this going on while trying to take pictures with the camera while all that erroneous stuff was also on the card.
We started having images that the bottom third or half would be offset quite a bit and have a heavy pink or green cast to the corrupted portion; sometimes, portions of one picture would be on the following image, like a persons head and shoulders would be on one image and their feet and legs on the bottom of the next -- this behavior would affect a whole string of images.
Not knowing any better, we blamed this behavior on the camera.
About ten years later, when we got our first DSLR and by necessity started to learn better, we quit using the memory card as if it were an external drive and haven't had a corrupted image since; for what it is, that camera takes excellent pictures; alas, the LCD screen finally burned out; the camera still takes good pictures, we just cannot see anything on the screen, thus we cannot make any changes in the menu, nor can we monitor our images in-camera.
I have done this countless times with no negative effects that I have ever noticed and I have some fairly large cards -- 128GB.
*******......***********.........***********...........
As an example of what can happen to files in an improperly formatted card, back when we got our first digital camera, a Hewlett-Packard MP415, neither of us had the slightest clue what we were doing.
We didn't even have a computer.
I paid more for that simple point-and-shoot camera way back then than some of the new DSLR that we have.
We had absolutely no idea what a GB was and the camera is limited to a 1-GB maximum card; put any larger size card in it and it will turn it into a 1-GB card.
No card came with the camera; I had to buy that separate; I paid nearly fifty bucks for a simple 1-GB card.
Not knowing any better, the wife would edit pictures and save them back to the card; friends and relatives with different brands of cameras would share various pictures with her by using their computer to put these images on the HP's card; a bunch of old family photos got scanned and put on that card; all of this going on while trying to take pictures with the camera while all that erroneous stuff was also on the card.
We started having images that the bottom third or half would be offset quite a bit and have a heavy pink or green cast to the corrupted portion; sometimes, portions of one picture would be on the following image, like a persons head and shoulders would be on one image and their feet and legs on the bottom of the next -- this behavior would affect a whole string of images.
Not knowing any better, we blamed this behavior on the camera.
About ten years later, when we got our first DSLR and by necessity started to learn better, we quit using the memory card as if it were an external drive and haven't had a corrupted image since; for what it is, that camera takes excellent pictures; alas, the LCD screen finally burned out; the camera still takes good pictures, we just cannot see anything on the screen, thus we cannot make any changes in the menu, nor can we monitor our images in-camera.
