Teeth, how can something so small cause so much pain, i understand that if i loose a finger or toe or break a bone I 'need' to know about it, hence the nervous system. But teeth, i can feel if they break or fall out, so why the nerves and how come the smallest part of the body can cause the greatest amount of pain. Which leads me onto Memory cards, memory cards?. Yes. They, like the teeth been small in your mouth, are the smallest part of the camera setup, when they work they are great, but when they don't, just like your teeth, they can give you a huge amount of pain:
Sunday night I photographed Telford Tigers against Slough Jets, a game which we won. It had end to end action, a big fight and goals. I was also asked to take a couple of promo shots of Shropshire Ambulance trust,as well as the end game celebrations. When i got home, I as always, loaded the card into the computer to copy of the images. Strangely it did not recognise the card. Put it back in the camera - all OK, so tried again in the computer. This i did a couple of times, before a final push into the card reader and 'SNAP' went the card, along with all 150 shots from that night and so started a couple of hours of anguish, just like tooth ache, as i tried to restore the data, all to no avail. So in hindsight;
A) don't buy/use cheap branded SD cards, needless to say i have now got 4 Sandisk 2gb 130x cards.
B) If the reader doesn't work 1st time it isn't going to work on the 4th time
C) why didn't i try to connect the camera via the USB interface - that's the killer one !
Lessons learned and whilst still not happy with the incident, i have, as the Americans would say, closure on the incident.
