Lost pictures? This has happened to me about 6 times already. I shoot at least 10 pictures. See them on the playback later. Go to load them on my computer and they disappear! Put the SD card back in the camera and they are gone. I've called Panasonic, they told me to try another SD card, did and the same thing happened 2 more times. But I never know when it will happen! I shot 30 pictures in the ealier evening, all there. Later at night shot 15 more, they were in the playback, and then disappeared. Anyone else experience this, it's making me crazy!!!! I love the quality of the pictures, but the fact that I never know what I may lose makes this a worthless camera! Lost pictures? This has happened to me about 6 times already. I shoot at least 10 pictures. See them on the playback later. Go to load them on my computer and they disappear! Put the SD card... » Read More Lost pictures? This has happened to me about 6 times already. I shoot at least 10 pictures. See them on the playback later. Go to load them on my computer and they disappear! Put the SD card back in the camera and they are gone. I've called Panasonic, they told me to try another SD card, did and the same thing happened 2 more times. But I never know when it will happen! I shot 30 pictures in the ealier evening, all there. Later at night shot 15 more, they were in the playback, and then disappeared. Anyone else experience this, it's making me crazy!!!! I love the quality of the pictures, but the fact that I never know what I may lose makes this a worthless camera! « Show Less
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I know this sounds crazy, but what do you have to turn the camera to to download to the computer?
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I have had the same problem. We just travelled abroad for a big family get-together, and took pictures of the some memorable moments at the occaision. I would have "playback" all the pictures multiple times. One fine day I tried to see what was in the camera, after I came back to the US...guess what..No Pictures. As Adrienne mentioned..It drove me crazy too. I have not had an occaision to lose them again yet..Anybody have any ideas of recovering them....Is it the camera or the SD card..Any Ideas...The card I am using is the SD Ultra II card..2gb..bought at Costco. Any familiarities here.... I have had the same problem. We just travelled abroad for a big family get-together, and took pictures of the some memorable moments at the occaision. I would have "playback" all the pictures multiple times. One fine day I tried to see what was in the camera, after I came back to the US...guess what..No Pictures. As Adrienne mentioned..It drove me crazy too. I have not had an occaision to lose them again yet..Anybody have any ideas of recovering them....Is it the camera or the SD card..Any Ideas...The card I am using is the SD Ultra II card..2gb..bought at... » Read More I have had the same problem. We just travelled abroad for a big family get-together, and took pictures of the some memorable moments at the occaision. I would have "playback" all the pictures multiple times. One fine day I tried to see what was in the camera, after I came back to the US...guess what..No Pictures. As Adrienne mentioned..It drove me crazy too. I have not had an occaision to lose them again yet..Anybody have any ideas of recovering them....Is it the camera or the SD card..Any Ideas...The card I am using is the SD Ultra II card..2gb..bought at Costco. Any familiarities here.... « Show Less
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I have had this camera for almost 2 months, and I have taken easily 1000 pics. I have never had a problem with losing pics or uploading them. I can view all of them on the camera without problems as well. There must be something wrong with the camera itself. I've used 4 different SD cards and haven't had a single problem.
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My sister "lost" all of her pictures off a Sandisk Compact Flash card, but I was able to retrieve over 600 with less than 5% of the photos being corrupted. I used Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery (version 1.2) freeware. The software was spyware free and available at download(dot)com It was slow, but very successful, in my opinion. One of the big keys to my success was that I told my sister to immediately stop using the CF card and to not attempt to format it.
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Keep in mind if you use a large memory card and something (gulp) happens to it (like losing it, damaging it, having it stolen, etc.) your data is ... gone. For this reason, consider using smaller cards and store them relatively quickly. One of my memory cards turned up missing after a shakedown at an airport in India and all I can say is I'm glad I had another one with half my photos.
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hi, yah.. it seems the HD sd cards will not register I have any photos on them..but then I put the card back in the camera and I can view the photos on the card.. grr.. is that what you found.. have you been able to resolve this issue?
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I've recorded video until the card filled up. Deleted it and did it again for several other events. Never had a problem. Works great!
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I did have this problem with my "Canon" digital camera. I downloaded a program called "ZAR" (for ZeroAccountRecovery), which SUCCESSFULLY RESCUED 92% of the photo images on the SDHC card after about 1.5 hours of scanning the card. There is NO FEE for this particular function of the software!
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The in-camera memory is good for only 3 pictures (I only get three) - after that you have to copy to card.A friend of mine said that reason it doesn't automatically copy to the card is his card was already formatted.Maybe - just maybe if you used the camera to format the card (saving your card to your computer first) the card would automatically cross-save your photos as you shot more pictures..I'm going to try that and will reprot back later - camera in my daughters hands for the next couple of weeks.
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I have constant trouble with these things saying the SD cards are corrupted. Once that happens, it doesn't even record to my computer for some reason, live viewing only.
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It is very unlikely that the card is at fault. I would put the SD card back into the larger holder and stick it into my laptop (if you have one) in the SD slot and look at the SD card as a drive and see if you see anything... Also, the pics may be stored on your camera's member, not the card. Plugging your camera into the laptop using a usb cable might also bring up the pics. Best to find someone who knows how to do these things....good luck!
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Did it power off? Do you use SD cards on your video camera ?. If you don't have SD cards the camera will power off. I only replace SD cards, and since I have this fabulous camera I have bought SD cards only once. I only recharge the battery, never had to change it.
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Mine has options in the menu for loop recording ("off", "3 min", "5 min", and "10 min"). I have it set to "off". When full it displays an icon that indicates that it's recording over the old footage, but when I go to play back the latest recording it isn't available. I pulled the card to check it on my laptop and
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Did you format the card in your camera first? I have bought over two dozen Sandisk cards of all shapes and sizes and never had a problem...strange.
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I am having a problem with 32GB class 10 card, where it just stops recording. Also I was only getting a few days of use. Having to clear files every other day is not acceptable. So I switched to 16GB class 4 card and it seems to have worked. I have just started using it, but it is recording 6 days and counting... so I hope that fixed it. If not I am selling this one. I do enjoy having a camera in the car. This one does a good job except for this possible issue. However If I upgrade I will get one with front and rear camera.... you can get hit from the rear just as easy from the rear. However this was a low cost effective device worth trying. I am having a problem with 32GB class 10 card, where it just stops recording. Also I was only getting a few days of use. Having to clear files every other day is not acceptable. So I switched to 16GB class 4 card and it seems to have worked. I have just started using it, but it is recording 6 days and counting... so I hope that fixed it. If not I am selling this one. I do enjoy having a camera in the car. This one does a good job except for this possible issue. However If I upgrade I will get one with front and rear camera.... you can get hit from the rear just as easy from the rear.... » Read More I am having a problem with 32GB class 10 card, where it just stops recording. Also I was only getting a few days of use. Having to clear files every other day is not acceptable. So I switched to 16GB class 4 card and it seems to have worked. I have just started using it, but it is recording 6 days and counting... so I hope that fixed it. If not I am selling this one. I do enjoy having a camera in the car. This one does a good job except for this possible issue. However If I upgrade I will get one with front and rear camera.... you can get hit from the rear just as easy from the rear. However this was a low cost effective device worth trying. « Show Less
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You have to manually wipe it to re-record. Its capacity to record depends on the size of the memory card. I replaced the card that came with it because it had a very limited capacity (I think less than an hour at high resolution). With my 32 Gb SD card, it easily stores more than 4-hours of high resolution video.
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Try a different memory card. Never had that problem, even under some pretty rough conditions.
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I have never been able to get the camera to record more than a few seconds of video. I have not taken the time to figure it out. I think that I should not HAVE to figure it out. You put in an SD card, you record, you replay, you're happy! Not this one.
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My camera did the same thing and at first I thought it was the camera and I thought about exchanging it for a new one. I instead bought another memory card to try first and since then I haven't had any issues.
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I think this was an issue with the Canon software that comes with the camera, which you do not have to use. I bought an SD card reader (I think it cost $9) and use that to put the pictures on my computer, rather than installing the Canon software and plugging in my camera. It works just fine, and then you can use Windows (or any other photo/file management software you already have on your computer) to erase all of the pictures you want. If you plan to use SDHC cards with your camera, just be sure the card reader is compatible with SDHC cards. I use several different cameras and a camcorder that uses SD cards, so it is simpler for me to just use the card reader than to install drivers for every single camera. Plus, it saves the camera's battery power and my computer's hard drive space, and I can manage photos from all of my cameras with a single program.