Hmm it's not locked or anything comes up on the camera saying locked when it is just tested haha! It could be a fake card I suppose I'm going to buy a new one and see if that works

Yes it does

Hmm the memory card looks fine to be honest and never had a problem with it before but I'm hoping it's just the sd card! I'm going to buy another memory card to try tomorrow! I read online about a programme called active undelete which someone with a similar issue tried on their memory card so going to see if it can find any of the photos I took today!
If anyone has any other idead I'm happy to hear it!

The camera didn't come up with an error or anything to say the images weren't saving or that there was an error with the sd card at all it just functioned as normal any ideas?

Thanks done that and there is a folder which should have photos from today but it's empty

I have a pentax k-x camera which I love but have a encountered a huge problem today. Yesterday I took some decent pictures and was looking forward to taking it with me to the farne islands today!

I took alot of photos but for some reason they haven't saved on my memmory card, the last one I have is from yesterday which is very frustrating! When I take a few pictures I can view them and it seems like they have saved, if I turn the camera off and back on again they have gone and the last photos which show are from yesterday!

It's so frustrating as paid a fair bit to get to the farne islands today and have lost all the pictures I took!

Any ideas?

Thanks the 16 rule is really useful I'll remember it! And thanks gwing think I'll try the cheap ones at first and see how I get on

Thanks I'll take a look

Thanks been looking at and filters on eBay and a little confused would a cheap one like this for example be useless?
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Thanks guys really useful looks like a neutral density filter might be the best idea. I probably won't need it often its rarely sunny in the north east haha! Are they difficult to use or do you just literally stick it on and take the picture (obviously after adjusting aperture). Is there any you'd recommend or are they all the same and I just need one which will fit the lens? Thanks again

Sorry not sure if this is the right place to post and sorry if this is a really obvious question but I'm just learning! Anyway I went to the beach today with the intention of taking photos of the sea with a slow shutter speed but its a fairly sunny day and every picture was massively overexposed at anything under 1/200 shutter speed. I was letting the aperture be automatic but also did it manually and the max it goes is f22 (ISo was 200).
I was using a Pentax k-x with the kit 18-55mm lens.
Was I doing anything wrong or would I need a lens with a higher aperture? If so what would you reccomend?
Thanks again in advance you're all very helpful!