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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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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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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 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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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'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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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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Compactflash cards are much more sturdy. SD cards flex and get squashed, so unless you have them on your camera (like if you carry extra like most serious photographers) it is much better to use CF cards. They also have better bandwidth with more pins, but mostly you wont notice that since the camera interface and cardreaders cannot fully utilize it unless ...
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Any general file recovery tool will do. For image-centric ones, there are also plenty available. The most popular ones are Image Rescue and Photo Rescue. They each offer a free-trial which shows you thumbnails and guarantee that anything that shows a thumbnail will be recovered once you pay. I can vouch that both of these work and I have seen them recover ...
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Your camera supports SDXC cards which have a theoretical size limit of 2 TB, so it supports any SD, SDHC or SDXC memory cards on the market.
The difference between SD, SDHC and SDXC is maximum capacity. SD cards are limited to 2 GB. If you shoot video, you will notice that limit quickly. For images, it depends on how much you shoot and how often you ...
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It is compatible. All cameras supporting SDXC also accept SDHC and SD. SD cards are limited to 2 GB. SDHC to 32 GB and SDXC have a theoretical limit of 2 TB. SDXC memory cards also usually use a different file-system which is exFAT, rather than FAT.
In the case of 16GB, it is always SDHC. Although it would be possible to make a 16GB SDXC cards, no one does ...
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38 GB is what is needed for the photos alone. This is based on the largest JPEG and NEF files I have from the Nikon D5100. Add video and you are over, so much so that I think you would be tight with 64GB and should go with the a 128 GB version. I have both a 400X and 133X version of the Lexar 128GB SDXC professional and they worked flawlessly until now. ...
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It's going to be an issue with the card and compatibility. Doing a quick Google search some people are having compatibility issues along a range of devices. (Including but not limited to the Samsung Galaxy SIII Micro SDHC 32GB Class 10 Card Problem)
A new firmware version 1.1.1 is now available for the 60D as of yesterday (06/19/12).
Canon 60D Software ...
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Unless these are for parallel backup of each other or are much much cheaper than alternatives I would not recommend 32 GB cards if you can avoid them.
Having few & large cards rather than smaller and more of them risks loss of many files at once. I'd guess without looking it up that RAW + JPG gives you 1500+ images/32 GB and that any JPG mode gives you ...
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You can calculate your approximate storage requirements by using manufactures published data. BUT you should never use a single storage card except in cases when you also have backup copies whose integrity is guaranteed. A minimum (but incomplete) requirement to guarantee (in normal terms) the integrity of a backup copy is to have 2 backup copies (in ...
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I don't know if it caused by the brand, the transfer rate, or the size of the card, but I have noticed an appreciatable difference in the power consumption (battery life) when using different cards in my camera.
I use an old Pentax Optio W20 to shoot video while kayaking and with a fresh battery I can get a full hour of video before the battery dies when ...
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I use a 32GB card, but I feel that was a mistake. If I could do it again I would've purchased multiple smaller cards. If I had more than one card I wouldn't suffer from a single point of failure in the SD card. If one failed I'd lose those photos (if any) and then I could still use the backup.
Also, if you do not frequently empty the card then it takes ...
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If it's brand new I would just save the time and go back to the shop and complain.
If you purchased it on ebay you may want to check:
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/h2testw-14-gold-standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/
Sometimes, some Ebay SD card sellers sell a "16gb card" that actually only has maybe, 32mb", or some other small ...
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Try fully erasing your card on the computer:
If you use Windows: Download the official SD Formatter, enable overwriting from the Options button and proceed to format the card.
If you use Mac OS X or most Unix variants: erase the card by running the following command with superuser privileges: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{whole disk device identifier}. After it ...
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From the description you've given, especially the part about the camera failing to format the card, it sounds like there's just simply something wrong with your SD card, so that probably means throw it out and buy a new one. They aren't that expensive these days.
Even if you can get the card to work again, it's not worth continuing to use a card that you ...
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You are experiencing a data communications issue at some point. When large files are transferred they are broken up into packets and then reassembled. When some of the data is corrupted then the packets don't get reassembled in the correct order, or some of the packets aren't the correct length and so the rendering program thinks bits that are supposed to be ...
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Not to be taken as an answer, just a summary of the above plus a few observations. +1 to everyone, including OP for a very interesting question.
This depends very much on circumstances and OP is not quite clear. Is he swallowing the card when the security forces have nabbed him, or when they look like they might and he has a few minutes time to do ...
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Do not buy a single large card - or even larger than necessary cards.
Risk of data loss is minimised by using more smaller cards.
If you shoot RAW and if D3100 RAW files are around 20 MB (adjust to suit actual) you'll get about 50 photos/GB ~=
400 / 8GB
800 / 16 GB
1600 / 32 GB
3200 / 64 GB
JPG will give substantially more.
In almost any setting, ...
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From what I could find on the different modes of your camera it looks like one of the limiting factors is the speed of your SD card. I couldn't find any specs about the cameras writing speed limitations, but it would surprise me if you don't see an (small) speed-up with a faster SD card.
Have you tried to "only" take 5-10 pictures while in Top 20/40 mode, ...
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I use a Transcend 32GB SDHC class 10 card and while it works well I have found that with my camera (Rebel XS) on RAW I can take 2820 pictures. If I shoot JPEG the little counter thing that displays remaining images stays at 9999 for a while... So 32GB might be a bit much unless you're doing video, in which case I have no advice for you because I don't do ...
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