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Friday, May 20, 2011

My K-r Burnt my Sandisk and Went Nuts! :-(

Had a tour to the Hong Kong's highest observation deck, the Sky 100, with my Gold/Brown #107 K-r.

I went up there for an hour and took some good shots (I believe ;-)). When I decided to leave and wanted to shoot a few more group photos with my family, my K-r hanged up and my Sandisk Ultra 16GB SD card was burnt!! The problem only happens when I shot some continuous single frames in a chain a while back! >:-(

All the photos were lost and I am still trying some ways to recover them but I am not too optimistic for the data recovery, for what so far I have tried..

The following is the "death" combo:-



The burnt card is a Sandisk Ultra 16GB SDHC.

Each time when I put back that killed card back to my K-r, the camera tries very hard to read and recognise it:-



Until then it finally gives up, and shows a "memory card error" message:-



But the strangest thing is that the K-r was put into a disordered status after that, even with another healthy card put back into it:-



Note that everything has been gone wrong afterwards, it shows ISO 0. Yes, ISO ZERO!! :-o

Actually, an AF lens was mounted (it is the FA43 Limited in this case) but it shows MF (yet the body turns the AF lens!). The SR has also been disabled and so on!



The status screen will then be turned off ever and it will not show up again, until the battery is picked out of the camera and re-inserted!

Really terrible!! >:-{


Related:-

K-5 Mirror Disorder

The K-5 Have Got a Cold! :-o

My K-r First Hands-ons (Tested Twice)

Over Hong Kong (Aero Photos of Mine)

K-x' Durability/Production Quality is Just a Joke!

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It's problem of Sandisk. Not K-r. Sandisk 16 Gb is not the best card, to say honest.
2 replies · active 721 weeks ago
But why the K-r went nuts after encountering the "memory card error" then? (Even though it actually did not "burn" the Sandisk, which I don't believe so! Things happened just so co-coincidently!)
Sandisk have some pride, so the card comit suicide and kill the awful goldish thing.
you might have a bad board time to send it in.

here is a really good prgram for recovering photos it works like a champ and its free.
http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1
5 replies · active 720 weeks ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I tried another photo recovery utility of the PC Inspector before but failed. I hope this utility will work this time, hopefully.
Oh. That's really bad luck. My *istDs is at 50+k photos and still going strong.

You might try PhotoRec, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec . Works well for me. Good luck!
Thanks. But I think the latest Pentax DSLR models, i.e., the K-5 and K-r, are the most unstable and buggy Pentax DSLRs ever made.
So, would you recommend a K-x instead of a K-r for a K-m user wanting better high-ISO performance?
But K-x has the annoying rechargeable battery instability problem.
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rikkoamachi · 721 weeks ago

currently running 17859 shuttercount ... 10% of it are series of burst .. no problem found (apart from ff and occasional weird shutterblur) >
However the camera went as seen on your picures when i inserted a broken V-gen memory (which was broken when i used k200d) ...
2 replies · active less than 1 minute ago
Does the death card put your K-r into an exceptional / unexpected status then? Same phenomenon?
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rikkoamachi · 721 weeks ago

yes. exactly the same. iso 0
Try rewrite firmware and for recovery - try recuva (http://www.piriform.com/recuva).
1 reply · active 721 weeks ago

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