2 Questions, hopefully only one of them dumb (power and deleting clips/photos)

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wallrc

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So the dumb question first:

If I stick the card in a computer and delete select photos or clips, the camera wigs out when I put it back in and thinks they are still there but can't display, sometimes it even locks up. If I go through and "delete" manually using the trash button each photo that was deleted on the computer, it's ok after that. What's the proper way to mass delete some, but not all, clips and photos on the card, without formatting the card?


Other question:

Has anybody rigged up a battery solution using 7.2v hobby batteries? There's plenty out there that are 3000-5000 mah and are $20 or so. Seems like you could directly adapt them to the dummy batt kit; I don't really want to buy the expensive ptap etc power solutions, I don't own any AB or ptap batteries, so moving to those solutions isn't economical for me.
 
Indeed: deleting files (in camera or in the computer) and using the card afterwards makes it slower and more prone to failure. I always format the card in-camera.

No idea about the battery, I just use the internal ones, the way I shoot (many short clips totalling around an hour of footage per day) a couple of them get me through a full day of shooting. And they are cheap so I have 6 of them.

edit: I just tested this: a fully charged battery gives me 90 minutes of footage.
 
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But you lose your presets when you format the card. I have something assigned in every memory slot...annoying to have to redo that every single time. Card management is something that Canon does better - you can do whatever you want to the files externally and it still works, and presets are not tied to the card.
 
wallrc said:
But you lose your presets when you format the card. I have something assigned in every memory slot...annoying to have to redo that every single time. Card management is something that Canon does better - you can do whatever you want to the files externally and it still works, and presets are not tied to the card.
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Camera memory slots have nothing to do with your SD Card. They're stored on internal memory. If you're losing them when you reformat your card, either you're not saving them correctly or something is amiss with your camera.
 
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Camera memory slots have nothing to do with your SD Card. They're stored on internal memory. If you're losing them when you reformat your card, either you're not saving them correctly or something is amiss with your camera.
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This. There is the ability to save presets out to SD card (or load them from SD) but the stored presets are not connected to the SD card.

Always format in camera. Delete in camera if you need to. Don't mess with files using a computer. Only transfer. SD cards are cheap, so get more if you need space.
 
The M1-M4 settings are stored in the SD card and you lose them when you format the card. The PP1-PP7 settings are stored in memory and are not lost when you format the card. I would love the M1-M4 thing to survive an SD format, those allow for a much broader fine tuning (like: I can set 1080p24 FF to M1, 1080p60 APS-C to M2 and 720p120 APS-C to M3, and same myself a ton of long trips to the menu system).
 
Rdouthit said:
Camera memory slots have nothing to do with your SD Card. They're stored on internal memory. If you're losing them when you reformat your card, either you're not saving them correctly or something is amiss with your camera.
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This is just wrong.
 
wallrc said:
This is just wrong.
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I've just had a thought; I use an EyeFi card for stills work so I can review the images on my iPad.

I always format the card before each shoot, but the EyeFi software is always left on the card, just the images are deleted.

So, can you do the same for your situation - create two partitions, program the presets into one partition and then lock that partition ?
 
wallrc said:
This is just wrong.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. I *only* shoot in custom M1-M4 modes (5-10 shoots per week with the A7S, since it shipped a few months ago) and I constantly swap out and format SD cards without losing my custom settings. You can't save APS-C mode because it's just of those options that's not configurable to a memory position (which is damn annoying) that has nothing to do with "how" it's being saved.
 
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Rdouthit said:
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I *only* shoot in custom M1-M4 modes (5-10 shoots per week with the A7S, since it shipped a few months ago) and I constantly swap out and format SD cards without losing my custom settings.
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OK, so how do you set the custom m1-m4 modes ?
 
Change the settings to what you want, keeping in mind not all settings will save, such as APS-C mode. I just modified my Record Setting from 30p to 120p for the sake of this example. Go to Menu, Camera, sub-menu 8, Memory, select which position you want to save it in (I selected 2, which was previously set up for 60p) then click Save.

I just did this without an SD card in the slot, restarted the camera and (as expected) M2 is now set to 120p.
 
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Rdouthit said:
I just did this without an SD card in the slot, restarted the camera and (as expected) M2 is now set to 120p.
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Which indicates that these presets are not stored on the SD card at all.

Isn't this what another poster said earlier.

So it seems the OP isn't doing this procedure correctly.
 
Well I just formatted the card and everything is gone. All the presets (M1-4 and M2) which I had assigned) are gone.

And when I try to do what Rdouthit says he did, it flashes "NO MEMORY CARD INSERTED"
 
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wallrc said:
Well I just formatted the card and everything is gone. All the presets (M1-4 and M2) which I had assigned) are gone.

And when I try to do what Rdouthit says he did, it flashes "NO MEMORY CARD INSERTED"
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This is an A7S we're talking about... right?
 
wallrc said:
Well I just formatted the card and everything is gone. All the presets (M1-4 and M2) which I had assigned) are gone.

And when I try to do what Rdouthit says he did, it flashes "NO MEMORY CARD INSERTED"
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^ Exactly the same in my camera. Odd. There must be something we are missing, and I'd like to find it because it would make M1-M4 a lot more useful.

BTW yes, a7s (US version, original firmware), and mine allows me to save FF or APS-C mode individually to each M1-M4 mode.
 
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