cicopo
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There's more support for formatting here.
Memory Card Best Practices: 15 Things You Should Already Be Doing - TBEX
Memory Card Best Practices: 15 Things You Should Already Be Doing - TBEX
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There are differences between just deleting everything and formatting. Deleting, or high level formatting, is not really removing anything from the drive. All it does is tell the file system that these sectors are now free to be overwritten, but they are not actually cleared out and data can be recovered if it has not been overwritten. A low level format (LLF) fully deletes everything on the drive and replaces the data with all 0s. One advantage of doing a low level format, and why you should LLF any new cards you put in your camera, is that it doesn't just delete everything on the card, but it actually reassigns the sectors in the storage medium, which can repair corrupted or damaged sectors, as well as makes sure that they are written in the format that your camera uses. Back in the before times, in the long, long ago, doing an LLF on a desktop hard drive helped it sync with everything else in your system, and doing so on a floppy would also write a boot sector to the disk.
I do a LLF on my cards after I upload them to my desktop and back them up to my backup drives, every time. There are some people who are concerned that doing so will shorten the lifetime of a card because solid state media can only be overwritten so many times (and doing a LLF followed by storing new photos is basically writing to the card twice), but most SD cards can be overwritten several hundred thousand times before they start to fail. I take a lot of pictures, but not that many.
I do a LLF on my cards after I upload them to my desktop and back them up to my backup drives, every time. There are some people who are concerned that doing so will shorten the lifetime of a card because solid state media can only be overwritten so many times (and doing a LLF followed by storing new photos is basically writing to the card twice), but most SD cards can be overwritten several hundred thousand times before they start to fail. I take a lot of pictures, but not that many.
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cicopo
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I take 30-50K photos per year & have lots of cards but before they wear out they get replaced by bigger & faster cards because newer cameras need more file space & faster transfers. Bigger buffers allow holding the shutter button down longer & faster transfers allow a few more shots before the buffers slows drastically. To date I have not lost a single file to a bad card but my cameras shoot to 2 cards so even if 1 card fails the other should have the file. .
Check the camera serial number and contact the maker to see if it is registered or if they know where it was sold.
There may be a lost camera website but you want to leave the camera info less than 100%.
PS, I had no idea about the camera, card marking methods discussed here.
There may be a lost camera website but you want to leave the camera info less than 100%.
PS, I had no idea about the camera, card marking methods discussed here.
Superglyde
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I am hoping it turns out to be your wife's. That would be cool.
cicopo
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If it had been in the water that long I would expect the batteries to be dead & I think the one that was found did turn on & display some photos. That's just a guess though based on how long batteries survive when something gets put away with the batteries still inside.
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That's an S110. That's what I shoot with. It has easily editable owner/copyright fields in the main menu, but of course you'll need to be able to turn it on in order to access the menu. If it doesn't have a working battery, you can put the SD card in a computer and look at the file properties for any of the images on the card. There are Author and Copyright fields under the Origin heading in the Details tab.
Somebody else mentioned earlier that you can also try contacting Canon to see if they can locate the owner based on a registered serial number. The serial number should be on a sticker on the bottom of the camera, but may also show up under "Advanced Photo" in the Details tab.
