Pentax K70 - jpg file Wedding photos will not display
The ones with 0size will be duds. Not much to do there.
Did you shoot raw or jpeg?
There are lots of possible things that can go wrong, but be careful of image recovery software that might delete all the images so it can try to recover them.
I would try the card in another camera, or another slot on the camera. If the card is a very large capacity with two rows of contacts then not all readers will recognise it.
Failing all that, I'm happy for you to e-mail me a faulty image and I'll have a look at it.
I agree it sounds as if either the card has become corrupted or the PC card reader being used can't read the contents correctly. A rescue program won't be able to recover images off the card if it is incompatible with the reader being used.
many thanks for all the suggestions / advice, is very much appreciated, and i am working my wa through them methodically
- only 10 of the 232 jpg files display in the camera. the same 10 files that work ok and can be viewed on the laptop
- yes, i still have all the original files on the original sd card. worst case i will be mailing it to Pentax head office with a stern "please explain" letter
(after spending around 2000 dollars on Pentax kit, i was hoping for a better result.)
..and a request for help.
[ - i will consider steam rollering the pentax kit in a youtube vIdeo in the future. but not yet ]
i am travelling back from my mates wedding in Minsk, to AustralIa, via a visit to London. so, please excuse my delayed responses to any of your very helpful and considered responses!!
Evan
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- i will check out the Recuva software and get it dowoaded etc!!
worst case i will be mailing it to Pentax head office with a stern "please explain" letter
(after spending around 2000 dollars on Pentax kit, i was hoping for a better result.)
Evan
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Post here the exact details of the card and the card reader you are using. As others have said you cannot use the latest cards with older card readers.
If you get nowhere yourself you would do better trying to find an expert in file recovery to help. I would not pin my hopes on Pentax especially as the fault may actually lie with the card itself.
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They're the right size, but written with zeros only.
This has happened to others, across different camera brands.
I loaded your files into a hex editor, and compared to a working jpg.
The results are clear that there is no data in the file.
If the images don't display in the camera either, then sadly I don't believe there is any data to recover.
Quality/failure of the SD card is most likely cause.
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have tried MS Photo, MS Explore, Chrome, Corel, Paint. MS File Manager and Cyberlink.
at the moment i am running RescueDisk from ScanDisk, but i think that will try and fix problems with the actual disk - when i suspect that the problems are with the jpg files themselves
10 of the 232 files display - the balance of the photos return errors of file format not supported, cannot dispaly etc, slightly different message depending on the program being used
total size of the 232 files is 2.32Gb
the details of the jpg file sizes show that there is something there, some pg files are up to 10Mb in size
15 of the files show up as 0Mb
during the day, when i was taking photos, the photo review would show me that all the photos were being successfully taken
any advice on how to fix would be welcome.
its very disappointing and worrying
(and apologies in advance if this topic has already been covered, i did do various searches to try and find advice, here on the forum and on the internet. no luck so far.)
thanks / regards
Evan
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