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Digital is not always best!

Disaster strikes!

13.12.2006

Yep - what could be the worst thing to happen (after theft, personal injury and assault of course) when you´re on your travels?

I lost 2 months of photos whilst attempting to download them from a memory card reader in an internet cafe - one minute they were there and the next it was telling me my memory card was blank! God damn bloody computers (or should that be people who can´t use them properly......). Can honestly say I have no idea what happened - but let this be a cautionary tale - if you´re not sure get a professional to do it for you!

But as I said not the worst thing that could happen - I have the memories and now it means I won´t be able to bore you all to death when I finally make it home with photos from this leg of the journey.

Posted by kerryd 1:47 PM Archived in Photography

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something similar happened to me recently, spent hours climbing mount sinai to experience and photograph the sunrise, photo's somehow lost and again all I have are the memories hope the memory chip in the old head doesn't suffer the same fate!

13.12.2006 by kevinsudan

Happened to me at Iguassu Falls -- when I returned home I took it to a real camera shop -- they spent three weeks and recovered almost all my pictures and put them on a CD -- cost $10 US. Don't throw away your memory card -- you might be able to save the pics!

14.12.2006 by burnzy

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