serious question

Today, before I went out shooting, I tried to format my card, the process got stuck in the middle of formatting so I tried to turn the camera off. It did not turn off so I decided to take the battery out and wait a while and then try again... After I put the batter back in I started to take pictures and I noticed the camera was loading the photos reallllllly slow onto the card.

I took about 80 shots and I can review them on the camera, but when I hook either the camera or the card to the computer it says the card is not formatted and asks if I want to do that....Well I don't want to lose the shots I have.

does anyone have any suggestions on how I might get the photos off the card without losing them..

any info you have is greatly appreciated

Thanks
Darren

I just came across an ad in the new issue of PHOTOSHOP USER:
photorecovery for digital media www.lc-tech.com.
Don't know anything about it

Can you hook your camera up to your computer via a USB cable... not sure if the card will be readable that way, but it might be worth a shot.

ZAR, zero assumption recovery is a free program (try download.com) that specializes in memory cards, good luck.

Darren - can you try loading the card into a card reader ?

- pradeep

Darren,
Check out the Luminous Landscape site. Go to his article about Antarctica. He mentions that a bunch of people had card problems but that someone had a program that recovered all the files. Of course, he's all over it and it's the best thing since sliced bread and it's changed his life.

Thanks guys, I'll see what I can come up with later....Right now I am taking another card and going shooting!!!

Ummmm, let's see, Velvia?