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Subject: [OM] Re: A not so favorable report on PC Inspector Smart Recovery
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:49:05 -0600
On 11/2/06, AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> > Well, I didn't have to wait long.  While out shooting today
> > with the camera set for both raw and large JPEG's I shut the
> > camera off prematurely.  I thought the OFF switch was a soft
> > switch and that the camera wouldn't power down until any I/O
> > activity was completed. Apparently not so for the 5D.
>
> Does anybody else find this to be rather disturbing?  Was this
> just a one-time quirk of the 5D or is this a normal
> design-flaw--you know, like prematuraly opening the CF door
> while it is still writing?
>
> I shudder to think that it would be this easy to corrupt a CF
> card.  No Canon-bashing, just highly concerned as I prematuraly
> shut-off my cameras or open the CF doors while file writing
> maybe once a month.
>
> AG

"Disturbing" is putting it mildly.  I wonder how many photos I would
have lost if the E-1 worked this way.  I didn't realize any major
digital camera lacked file capture safeguards.  It's what you get used
to I guess.  I'm glad to know of it at least.

Joel W.

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