Card Problems

[Delamanda]

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Forgive me if a similar problem has been posted before, but I can't find it and perhaps someone could point me in the right direction, but if not:

 

I'm finding with increasing frequency that I put a formatted card in the M8, take a whole load of pictures - which I review in the LCD as I go along and then suddenly, instead of seeing the image, I get a black screen with L[number].jpg written on it. Shortly after this, I see the message "Attention: no valid image to play" (although the counter indicates that some pictures have been taken) and then when I try and download the pictures, they have disappeared.

 

I have tried different cards and the brand makes no difference. I am now really cross because I took a whole load last night and I won't get the chance to recreate those conditions again.

[Goombah6]

I think I have experienced similar problems and I don't know why or what the answer is. I have shot several cards of pictures which I shot, and when I tried to load them into my computer I got a message that the images weren't recognized. I was able to download them into LR2 directly by using the usb cable for the M8. Afterwards, I had to reformat these cards in my cardreader, and I think that has solved the problem. Not sure if this is what you are experiencing, or perhaps the opposite (?). ---Dave

[ho_co]

Del--welcome to the forum!

 

Sounds like a bad problem that brings you here, though.

 

I had a similar problem with another brand camera, but only on a single card. The solution in that case was to reformat the card.

 

Have you reformatted all the cards in the camera? In the computer?

 

Does the problem arise at the same place each time? (In my case, it was after 117 images every time.)

 

What brand cards? What speed? SD or SDHC (or something else)? Are they on Leica's recommended list?

 

What camera firmware?

 

RAW, jpg, RAW + jpg, or various combinations?

 

Condition of battery? (That is, does it still show full, or has the indicator started to show less than full? Is it always the same battery? Does it always happen when the battery shows the same level of charge?)

 

What computer system? You do normally use a card-reader, right, not the USB connection?

 

 

Obviously, what's happening to your pictures isn't supposed to happen. So my questions are just to try to see if there's some particular place where we could start.

 

 

As a workaround in the meantime, maybe as soon as you see the first sign of problem, you should turn off the camera and replace the card. Don't shoot the first card again (don't even put it back into the camera) until after you've downloaded the images with your cardreader and verified that the files are usable.

 

(It isn't clear to me from your description, but I'm assuming that after the first sign of problem, the camera still lets you make several more pictures before it goes completely haywire? If not, maybe you should use the smallest cards you've got, so that you have to switch them out more often; or maybe just shoot, say, 50 images on a card and then switch cards. If the images are all stored correctly up to the point where the mess-up happens, you could transfer each small batch to the computer before the problem occurs.)

 

Another thing to think about--though it probably won't help in this case--is trying some kind of file retrieval software on the cards that have shown the problem.

[danyves]

Got same problem with Lexar 133 pro 8GB SDHC with firmware 2.004

 

Save pictures with Rescue 3

 

Solve question by returning to 2GB SD Lexar cards.

 

Simple;)

 

Did not yet tried Sandisk SDHC cards.