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Apparently yes:
Police announced that part of the SD Card has since been discovered in Wakita's body (some Japanese blogs are reporting that they found it in his, ahem, poop). On the recovered card, officers apparently discovered the peeping pictures in question and arrested Wakita.
They are pretty durable things. It sounds like in this case the guy ...
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Fundamentally they are the same thing in a different package but they work differently.
SD cards use their own protocol which was extended to go beyond 2 GB up to 32 GB with the introduction of SDHC (there were a few 4GB SD cards but not very compatible) and then to support up to 2 TB with the introduction of SDXC. The SD to SDHC transition if you remember ...
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I can't speak for Linux, but on Windows I've used the excellent "Recuva" product from Piriform to recover deleted files.
Recommend giving that a go to see if the content is still retrievable and as Reid said - if there were more photos taken afterward then she's almost certainly up the creek.
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Check out TestDisk or the associated PhotoRec tool from CGSecurity.
TestDisk will allow you to scan the file system and look for deleted files. (See How to Undelete files with TestDisk.) Provided the data hasn't been overwritten it should be possible to recover the files. You can also use TestDisk to take an copy of the underlying file system to stop any ...
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It depends.
My last camera only connected at USB1.1 speeds, so was slower than using a USB2.0 card reader.
However, if your camera can do USB2.0 or you have a USB1.1 or USB1.0 card reader, you wont see that benefit.
You can get Firewire or ExpressCard card readers for CF cards, which are faster than USB2.0, (and I think generally limited by the speed of ...
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Most high-end SD cards from a good brand are waterproof. It will survive submerging in a fish tank for weeks, acid proof or not, I don't know. Generic brands or low-end cards are not as well constructed and are NOT waterproof.
However, taking the question seriously, since the card ultimately comes out with your waste. I think it would be better to wrap it ...
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Short answer: no.
Long answer: no. Your Fujitsu point and shoot camera has a much lower throughput than your card's max, so the bottleneck with shooting lots of pictures very, very quickly will be the camera itself, not the memory card. Additionally, there will be absolutely no difference in image of video quality... this is digital after all.
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I successfully recovered all the files from a formatted card by copying it using dd and then using the sleuth kit under linux. Fortunately no pictures had been taken since the card was formatted.
I used the fls and icat commands as described in test image results from Sleuthkit Informer Issue #14 and the TSK Tool Overview
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CompactFlash came out in 1994, while Secure Digital came out in 1999.
Five extra years of adoption helps explain why higher-end cameras support CF over SD (and vice versa). Pros tend to standardize; they buy a lot at once, have supporting equipment to match, and don't want to switch frequently. Thus professional standards have higher market inertia, and end ...
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The GoPro HD Hero 2 states on the FAQ page:
You will need to get a class-4 or higher SD card from a reputable brand and source in order to use the camera effectively. A class-10 SD card is recommended when using Time-Lapse mode or photo every 0.5 seconds.
Class 4 isn't that fast by today's standards, and actually equates to 4MB/s read/write speeds. The ...
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The short answer is that it doesn't really matter.
The "protected area" is not important for photography; I'm not aware of any camera that uses it. This area is theoretically used for user-hostile copy protection and is not really for your benefit in any case. When using your camera to store photos, you can just ignore it.
The concern about less than ...
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There is an advantage to Compact-Flash cards which you get with the fastest models and sufficiently fast camera. This is not what accounts for most of the price difference, volume is. SD cards are sold on considerably higher volume than CF ones. When CF cards were more popular, it used to be the opposite.
Nowadays, I would not worry at all about this. The ...
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The speed of the memory card is definitely one constraining factor but as you suspect there are other bottlenecks. First there is the internal memory buffer of the camera. Each camera only has so much RAM installed. When you shoot this buffer is filled first and the camera does what it can to quickly empty the buffer to allow for more shooting. The size of ...
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First make sure the metal contacts on the card are clean, and reformat the card in the camera using the menu. I assume you've done these things but it doesn't hurt to double check.
Since you get the same behavior in both card slots, it seems likely the card is damaged. They are relatively cheap — get a new one, preferably a higher-end name brand. If you ...
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I'd expect it to survive.
Stomach acid is reasonably nasty stuff but residence time is not vast.
You could try it now so that you know when needed.
Swallow an SD and a micro-SD at the same time. Anyone looking is more liable to find the SD and may stop at that stage.
Even if connections or PCB were damaged I'd expect the memory proper to have a good ...
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I would strongly recommend getting a new card. The danger to the camera, ultimately, is that it gets stuck in the slot because of the card seperating. While I would imagine that Nikon repair could sort that out, it may cost you a lot more than a new card to have it done because such a situation would not be warrantee.
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If you observed the Extreme Pro is in fact faster than the Extreme than that does answer your question (it answers the faster part, we already know the cheaper part).
If you have both cards you can always run a test, just set the camera to burst mode and hold the shutter button - this will tell you the maximum burst length for each card, or, if you don't ...
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There are two apps I have tried that worked for me:
Ontrack EasyRecovery - Very good, comprehensive and reliable. Got me out of trouble more than once. Unfortunately a bit pricey. Windows only. The Lite version is good enough for you as it can recover up to 25 files.
Sandisk RescuePRO - Not as comprehensive as EasyRecovery but gets the job done and is ...
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This depends on a number of factors but, in general, it would be true. The primary reason is that many readers are not attached via USB and so are not limited by the speed of the USB bus and are also not sharing the bandwidth of the USB bus with other devices. However, if your CF reader is USB, it wouldn't likely be much faster, if at all. Anyways, it can be ...
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I'm going to answer a different question. :-)
Instead of planning to strain my poo for the next few days, I would happily format the card and show the goons.
What I would be wagering is that they would not realize how easily one can recover images from a freshly formatted card. If that weren't good enough, I would voluntarily remove the card and give it ...
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I like PhotoRescue because I can start by doing a backup image of my card (useful if the card is close to dying) and then I can recover from the backup (faster because its on your hard drive). It also can recover video which some others can't do and it's super cheap.
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A camera can only write out information so fast. So once you have a card that can be written to as fast as the camera can write out there is no benefit to getting a faster card. The I/O bottleneck is on the camera side. The only benefit you'll see is when it comes to reading off the card onto the computer. Whether that benefit is worth the cost difference is ...
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Rob Galbraith has a full spread of tests with just about every popular card for this camera. To sum up the results, the fastest card is the SanDisk Extreme Pro 8GB SDHC card. It performed at 27.7MB/s JPEG and 26.4MB/s RAW for a burst of 39 shots in 30 seconds. The speed test was performed by shooting 17 JPEG Fine and then 10 NEF files.
More info can be ...
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e.g. A 32 GB SD Card can drain a camera battery much faster than a 8 GB SD Card?)
No. SD cards use NAND flash memory chips, power consumption when in use is tiny compare to the operational power usage of the camera itself (screen, etc).
You shouldn't see any difference really in battery consumption between using an 8GB mem card and a 32GB one.
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Change the playback from slot 1 to slot 2. You'll see (and be able to delete) the photos on your SD card.
From the camera, you cannot delete the "paired" files. They are totally separate and the camera doesn't connect them logically.
That having been said, I would caution you against this process. If you need more than 32g for a session, either buy ...
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There is a tab on the card that locks it from being written. Make sure that's not in the wrong position. Try moving it out of the lock position and see if it then works.
Otherwise try formatting it in camera, and if it won't format, try formatting the card on your computer using a card reader.
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Free, open source, cross-platform software PhotoRec can specifically recover many RAW formats, including Sony ARW (as well as Canon CR2, Nikon NEF, Pentax PEF, and others).
Although the interface isn't particularly slick, the underlying functionality is the same as any proprietary program, and I'd be surprised if any of the more expensive options can ...
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The main difference in cost probably comes from economies of scale. For a long time SD cards were more expensive, but now they've become cheaper as they've become easier to manufacture and require less materials. Meanwhile, due to their bulk, consumers have fallen out of favor with CF and prefer SD.
Additionally, the architecture of the cards is ...
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Just head to the photoshop.com website, login, select "Organize My Library" from the right side options here:
Then once you are inside of the organizer, you highlight the photos that you want to download (all 200 in your case), then click the Download Zip button:
From that you can download the zip file and extract it to wherever you would like to ...
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If you are looking for a more credible or official source stating what SD card works the best with the GoPro Hero 2, I would look no further then the EyeOfMine website. They are a very well known company that produces their own aftermarket accessories for GoPro cameras. I doubt you could find a company with more experience modifying and getting the most out ...
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