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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Did it power off after five minutes or did it stop recording after 5 minutes? Is your SD card full? I would think the only reason it would stop recording after five minutes would be if your SD card is full. If it is not, I would probably return it.
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I am having the same problem. I use the color assistant, but it doesn't seem to find the SD card. I have used 3 different SD cards from 32GB to 16GB. Does the size of the SD matter?
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I have the very same problem. There must be some type of program error. I did a lot of research and gave up. I just pull the SD card and plug into my PC. There was no warranty on my camera when I found out it would not work with my PC or TV.
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All I ever do is drag the videos into a folder on my computer to save for later or into the trash, I have never had an issue myself. Have you tried emptying the trash, unplugging the camera, and then plug the camera back in?
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Way to go you rock... I just erased my Kodak zx-3 internal memory and then updated it with latest firmware all in disk utility on my mac mini.Reformatted my sd card in the camera ....Now it is good as new.It was stoping recording after one sec every time I tried to record...Now it is fixed thanks to you my friend..Rock ON!
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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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It has been awhile since I have used my camcorder but I think it has an internal memory. I only recorded about 10 minutes of content andthen I would upload that to my computer and delete what I recorded. I am not sure how much internal memory it has though.
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I just realized that a memory card doesn't come with this camera. What a bummer. My camera is on its way to me and I have to go out and buy a memory card before I can use it??? This has never happened before, and I've had four or five previous digital cameras. Is Canon getting stingy?
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its got an eight gig sd card you can record continuously on the eight gig but once the thing is full of the last few days either change the Card or reformat it nothing has happened you reformat it something has happened you just get another card and keep that one .
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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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Is yours only recording a single 3 minute clip/frame/segment or a number of them? Check your settings. I have mine set for 5 minute frames/segments etc. It records continuously for several hours (32GB) but when I down load the card the entire recording is appears in 5 minute segments. Makes it easier to find a spot in the journey. ??????
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This could very well be a SD card issue.... I've seen this happen on one of my friend's SLRs when they tried using a older SD card (that is not class 6 or higher).... Even if urs is class 6, it might not be a bad idea to try using a different SD Card, as the one that u mite be using now might be defective..... Good luck.....
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yes, you get empty shots, but also gets get good ones. purchase the biggest memory card you can afford. I use a 32gb card, fills up in 3 days with HD 30 second videos.
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Same problem, always Busy after taking the picture.I have the same card, the 16gb class 6 Trascend SDHC card, in fact I bought two of these and one of 8 GB same brand, I have 3 cards SandDisk Extreme that I use with my (now) old S2IS, I test with every card, and I have always the same Busy message after taking the picture. I am very sad, because that doesn't happen with the S2IS, same cards. I would say that it is not a Card problem but I don't know how to fix it. I tryed avoidig to use it the Auto mode, and the Busy dissapear in some othe modes, I can't figure out what is happening. I hope somebody out there help me. Thanks. Eduardo., Same problem, always Busy after taking the picture.I have the same card, the 16gb class 6 Trascend SDHC card, in fact I bought two of these and one of 8 GB same brand, I have 3 cards SandDisk Extreme that I use with my (now) old S2IS, I test with every card, and I have always the same Busy message after taking the picture. I am very sad, because that doesn't happen with the S2IS, same cards. I would say that it is not a Card problem but I don't know how to fix it. I tryed avoidig to use it the Auto mode, and the Busy dissapear in some othe modes, I can't figure out what is happening.... » Read More Same problem, always Busy after taking the picture.I have the same card, the 16gb class 6 Trascend SDHC card, in fact I bought two of these and one of 8 GB same brand, I have 3 cards SandDisk Extreme that I use with my (now) old S2IS, I test with every card, and I have always the same Busy message after taking the picture. I am very sad, because that doesn't happen with the S2IS, same cards. I would say that it is not a Card problem but I don't know how to fix it. I tryed avoidig to use it the Auto mode, and the Busy dissapear in some othe modes, I can't figure out what is happening. I hope somebody out there help me. Thanks. Eduardo., « Show Less
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Insert card into camera.w/ camera set to view pictures, press menu button. arrow down to the icon of the little wrench (that's setup). Arrow down/thru 5 pages til you see format. it will say "delete all data?" (make sure there are no pictures on the card you want to keep or they will be gone once you hit yes. Hope that helps. If you have any ?? lmk As I also have this camera.
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I am not sure what that would be, though did you ever format your card? You are supposed to format the SD card before you use it. I would suggest saving whatever pictures you have now, unless you don't care or want to save the pictures - to your computers Hard Drive or a Flash Drive (or external Hard Drive). Then after you have saved the few pictures on your card, format it. Formatting will delete whatever is on your card, though it should fix your problem. If you have already done this and are still experiencing a problem, you may have a bad SD card....rare and I have never heard of a bad one though its very possible. Also, did you ever update the firmware for your camera? That should not have caused the problem, though it may fix it.