Anybody know anything about cameras?

[69bronzeT5]

I have a Canon (not sure the model right now) digital camera. I got it used from my dad's girlfriend. Has a Scandisk (?) 2GB memory card. I've noticed I've had issues with pictures disapearing. Over the past 2 weeks, I took some pictures of my Charger while I was moving it around the driveway, there were some cool pictures, they're gone now. When I moved, I took a bunch of it on the trailer....all of those are gone except for one and some scenery shots from the move. I'm thinking my dad's girlfriend's 10 year old son might of deleted them because I can see him doing that but I'm also throwing around the thought of maybe my camera is deleting them. Anybody have this happen to them?

[rav440]

i know my old HP 733 will hold / register it has 5000 pics if i put a 1 gig card in it but will not up load  so i swapped the 1 gig for a 256 mb and it works fine .

maybe the pics are on the card the cam just might not let you see  take the card to wall mart and see if the pics are on it .

all in all the card may be to big for the cam if its older . 

[Brock Samson]

 No they shouldn't simply dissapear. Don't know about the outside tampering issue though,

[beware the sleeper]

yeah most solid state mem cards like that either hold files, permanently hold files (like refuse to write or erase) or flat stop working when they go bad.  only other thing I can think of is if you have an auto sync function thatd put em on your computer and wipe em off the camera.

[mikepmcs]

Has this card been used over and over again(Think of it like a 3.5 inch floppy) If so, that would be my first thought is it's worn out.  If the camera is recording them, then it most likely isn't the camera. If they are vanishing after the fact then it's most likely the card. I might delete one here and there on my 2g cards as i'm taking pics but I now just fill up the card and store it and start with a new one. I can get about 250 pics on a 2g card. 

[69bronzeT5]

only other thing I can think of is if you have an auto sync function thatd put em on your computer and wipe em off the camera.

I never got a chance to put them on the computer

[captnsim]

My old Nikon D1's DSLR had a issue with disappearing pics. If you shut the camera off before it had a chance to write the pics to the card (you could take 10 or so pics a second and the camera put them in a buffer? memory first) they would be gone when you turned it on again. For high res pics this sucked as it took a bit for it to write the files to the card...And D1's loved battery's and shut off if power gets low...not sure if a Cannon acts the same.

[69bronzeT5]

My old Nikon D1's DSLR had a issue with disappearing pics. If you shut the camera off before it had a chance to write the pics to the card (you could take 10 or so pics a second and the camera put them in a buffer? memory first) they would be gone when you turned it on again. For high res pics this sucked as it took a bit for it to write the files to the card...And D1's loved battery's and shut off if power gets low...not sure if a Cannon acts the same.

I think you nailed it. I was using almost dead batteries so I'd take a picture and then the camera would shut off. However, I took the pictures...then the camera turned off...then I looked at them a while later

[Magnumcharger]

In 2003 I bought a Sony DSC F717, which was a 5M digital camera. I never had a problem with it at all....until....
I upgraded the memory stick.

It came with one a 125K memory stick, which worked very well, but of course it doesn't take long to fill that up.
I ended up deleating pictures on the camera all the time, just to make things fit.
So two years later I bought two more 256K sticks..
And then I was faced with having to change them out continuously.

A year or two later, I bought a 1M stick...which I thought was a quantum leap. And had no problems.
So I bought two 2M sticks....and that's where the shitstorm started.
I'd take a bunch of pictures (like at Edmonton Powerama....GRRRRRRR!!!!), check the images on the camera just to make sure they were there, go to download them....and half of them were gone.
This happened several times - until I smartened up.

I could have killed!!

My solution was to dump the 2M chips onto my Son, who has a newer Sony camera, and he's had no problem at all.
I bought a Sony Alpha 350, a 12M camera that uses different chips entirely.
And I gave the older camera away to my brother-in law, along with the 256K chips.

So what caused the problem? I think it was the older camera's lack of internal storage, or just plain older technology.

[451-74Charger]

According to Microsoft..
SD cards should last at least 10 years when being yoused with Vistas Readyboost
I doubt it would go bad and loose pictures that easily.
I have many cards and have never (now watch them all go bad) had an issue !!

[oldrock]

if we knew the camera it would be helpful but one thing you might want to look at is the internal memory. I had an older digital that had an internal memory. What would happen is when the card was full, it would automatically bump additional pics over to the internal memory. The only way to get them off of it was to use a cord to download them to the computer. maybe something like that is going on with yours. If the camera has an internal memory, some of the pics could be ending up stored there.

[69bronzeT5]

It's a Kodak EasyShare C875. Not sure why I thought Canon, I think because I used to have one but it got stolen.

[BrianShaughnessy]

Dead batteries suck.   Rechargable AA's are a joke. 

  I had much better luck with the lithium AA energizers in the sony S60 and H5 - well, until I got to the Hooters in Mechaniville in July 

  The new HX1 uses sony rechargable H50 camcorder batteries that seem to last quite awhile.  I bought a couple spares off ebay to be safe.   That and I spent extra on regular sony memory instead of the sandisk stuff they try to pawn off at bestbuy.