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Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on February 21, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Gold crest
One from last year around this time, as some of you probably remember, I had some serious problems with my hard drives last year due to excessive heat, at least two of them failed anyway long story short I thought I would never see these images again, it's taken nearly 6 months but I have managed to find a identical drive and swapped over the control chips and the printed circuit, then mounted it in a external caddy which was also in pieces, that managed to recover 90 percent of what was on the hard drive.

Phillip.

Ps I got the idea to change over the control chips circuit boards from Nick one of the moderators (thanks Nick)

D2x sigma 500f4.5 hsm 1/320@f6.3 iso200 HH

PP in Bibble pro & CS2.

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Posted by John Chapman on February 21, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Great capture in a nice setting Phillip :toast:
John
Aberdeen :toast:
Posted by Nick on February 21, 2008 at 1:54 PM
A very nice photo to recover from the disk too - glad it worked for you Phillip .... it's a trick I've used a couple of times to recover drives that have 'died'.
Posted by Marek Miszczak on February 21, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Cracking shot.. :toast:
Posted by Paul Ashton on February 21, 2008 at 2:46 PM
A beautifully detailed shot of one of our smallest birds. Darn difficult to capture.

A hard drive will fail. It's only a matter of time. Hope for the best, anticipate the worst.
Posted by jack chapman on February 21, 2008 at 4:14 PM
very nice shot of a tricky bird
Posted by eric weight on February 22, 2008 at 1:03 AM
Well worth the effort - lovely shot.
:toast: :toast: Eric
Posted by Justin on February 22, 2008 at 3:49 AM
Pleased to hear you got most of your images back Philip. Lovely shot of a beautiful species.
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Posted by Mark Sisson on February 22, 2008 at 4:05 AM
Worth saving this one Phillip - and no doubt plenty of the others too knowing your standards!!

:toast:

Mark
Posted by Guy Rogers on February 22, 2008 at 4:17 AM
Hello Phillip.

Very nice love the setting and the nice warm light on the subjest gives it a nice feel. :wavey:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on February 22, 2008 at 5:20 AM


Hi Phillip , very good capture of a very difficult bird to photograph :toast: :toast:

Regards

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Paul Inglis on February 22, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Hi Phillip,

This is great! I've made a note of who to turn to if I suffer fate with my hard drive (hopefully they won't all go together!)
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Posted by Elliott Neep on February 22, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Glad to hear you managed to recover most of your files, Phil. It is always heart-breaking and downright infuriating when it happens. Lovely light. Amazing you got such a frame filler with such a tiny and flitting subject - well done! :toast: :toast: :toast: