My cheapness screwed me today.

[jaypie77]

I've been too frugal to get a card reader. I've just let my camera upload pics directly, despite this being a low procress, I've prefered it to spending $15 to grab a cheap card reader.

I was in the mountains for the weekend and came across an amazing scene. A grasshopper was laying eggs and I caught it all on camera with my macro. Amazing shots, according to the preview. I got home today, uploaded my shots. When the camera window came up, I unplugged my camera and deleted all the shots. Then I realized that my batteries had run low, which had prompted the disconnection early. In the end, I lost about 100 pictures, including all of the grasshopper shots.

I have learned a lesson: don't be cheap and call yourself frugal!

[psychedelic_never]

oh jaypie that was bad, but the reader was the one thing i bought before buying a 70-300 lens... Its that important to me..,, Hope u got on now, and better still if you can get the potable storage on which u can store around 20 Gigs of pics. That's worth the investment if u keep on running out of CF cards...

[khenn]

Someone more knowledgable on this can probably give you more information, but I believe that there is rescue software out there that can get most if not all of those pictures back for you (as long as you haven't overwritten them with new pictures). But maybe you can start with this link http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=42449&highlight=rescue+software or this one http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39768&highlight=rescue+software

Kris

[abel]

yeah do not format ur card yet!!

look in to a photo recovery software... i did and it salvaged all of my missing pics from my CF card without problems..

good luck

[ejwebb]

Hopefully you have not reformatted the card or taken new pics over them. I have had this happen and was able to get the photos back. I am not at my home computer but I think this is the one I used - worked great and recovered a whole card full of photos.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm

There are many free ones available on the web - no need to buy one.

Good luck!!

[jaypie77]

Wow, I used PC Inspector and got all the files back. Now I just have to organize them and put them in the right folders! PC Inspector even found pictures from several days ago that hadn't yet been overwritten. Awesome. Thanks for your help, everybody.

[ahmadof]

:D

[Roach711]

Photography-on-the-net to the rescue!

<sound of bugles blaring and the thunder of horses hoves as the cavalry comes into sight>

Da Roach

[robvonk]

So now, post the (some) pictures here :)