Full res Matterhorn photos
Hey folks, I am back from my recent trip through Switzerland and Italy, and can upload the full resolution shots taken with the TX1 that I had smaller versions of before.
Unfortunately last night I managed to corrupt my SDHC card as it was being read on my machine, so I have lost a great many videos and some stills that I hadn't backed up. Thankfully I only took a few stills on the TX1 (as compared to over 1900 on the DSLR), and backed up all of my Switzerland alpine railway shots on a portable drive during the trip. So I've said arrivederci to all of my lovely Lake Como and Italy vids. I religiously backed up all of my DSLR photos every day but was a bit more lax with the TX1. Geez that's annoying. Not the TX1's fault, more likely the crappy SDHC card reader I got off eBay. I think from now on I'll put up with downloading directly from the camera and be more vigilant with the backup up whilst on the road.
I have a stack of cool video, but as per usual that's going to take a bit of time to edit together into something half decent for the viewing public!
Anyway, here's the full size versions completely unedited. Click to enlarge...
On the way up the mountain to Gornergrat on the Mattherhorn Gornergrat Railway.
View from Zermatt of the Mattherhorn, at widest angle, then 10x zoom
View from the top
6 comments:
Have your tried a program like PhotoRescue on your corrupted files? It is intended for deleted photos, but might just work -- worth a try.
Another thought: I usually read directly from SD cards, but with the TX1 have found it more convenient to use the USB cable. This way, you can read 8 GB cards, even if your computer/reader won't.
For this reason I tend to use the USB connectivity for my digital camera's. Sadly my USB connector failed on my sony still cam a while back, so I have to use readers... and I dread the day my reader corrupts my card.
I can't wait to see the video. If it's okay, I might have to go and get me a TX1. I know my computer can edit it just fine, and it will be a great thing to take on trips by the looks of it.
Casey
IMO, the USB connection on the camera is NOT THE WAY TO GO. I've really hated how none of Canon's cameras are recognized as USB mass storage devices, at least not on Windows. Windows connects to it with their annoying photo transfer software that does a terrible job at talking to the camera. Plus, it doesn't even SEE the THM files, so I lost a bunch of them. Without those, if you put the videos back onto the camera (which you have to do if you have no other way of viewing them in HD on someone's TV), the camera doesn't see the videos.
My preference has ALWAYS been to remove the flash memory and read them with a card reader. The best one I've found for my SDHC cards is the Sandisk MicroMate, which can be found on Amazon for $13. Sandisk appears to make the most reliable card readers I've found, and they don't feel like those cheap plastic no-name readers you find on Newegg.
As for file copying, I recently read about a fantastic program that you can install and will handle all your file copying (for Windows). It makes for more reliable and fast copies. Check it out here:
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.asp
I've had a card go bad on me in the past. That sucks. I'm sorry to hear it.
I have a TX1 and an 8GB Class 2 SDHC card. It has gotten corrupted for the third time now! I am quite unhappy. I don't know if it's the card, card reader, or camera's fault. Each time it happened after I wrote a non-camera file to the card. I am wondering if that is the cause--even though it shouldn't be. I am a bit suspicious it is one of two things: 1. The card-reader (SanDisk Micromate) doesn't handle writing properly. 2. The TX1 can't handle other files and corrupts the filesystem on the card when it tries to handle those files.
In any case, I have had wonderful success with a piece of software called Card Recovery. http://www.cardrecovery.com/ It has recovered 98% of my lost pictures (in once case nearly 5 GB! an entire two week trip to Karen villages in Thailand!). It doesn't properly retrieve my videos, unfortunately, even though it theoretically can. It retrieves just bits and pieces of it (and that's only after I run it through the excellent software made by Rising Research, Digital Video Repair--Freeware http://www.risingresearch.com/en/dvr/).
Card Recovery's free demo will scan your card, tell you what it can recover, provide a thumbnail of what it can recover, but you must buy the paid version to actually recover it. I did so and it's been WELL, WELL worth it! I spent hours and hours and tried a multitude of other flash memory and undelete recovery tools and found Card Recovery to be far superior to any of them.
(btw, my blog (http://hansmast.com) has lots of pictures taken with my TX1. I am living in Asia as a student and am traveling all over--I've been to Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and am shortly heading to India, Laos, and Cambodia. The recent Hong Kong post, however, I shot with my sister's DSLR Canon Rebel XTi.)
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