For those shooting RAW+JPG, have you ever experienced a corrupt RAW file with the corresponding JPG file intact or vice versa? Is this possible?

I'm a RAW only shooter but am considering shooting both for workflow reasons.

ive done this shooting raw and saving a jpeg with it but it was too costly on the memory, shooting raw is large enough.

i usually shoot raw then put it on the mac, use bridge and use the image processor to covert them all into jpegs also. that way you never get a corrupt file and ive never ever had a corrupt file from any of my cameras, fuji and nikon

in 6 years of digi shooting, the only lost or corrupt files were on my original Canon d30 when I opened the door while it was recording. So as much user error as anything else.

I'll only do RAW + s speg for the sake of slideshows, especially since Lightroom makes RAW so easy now.

Michael:

I lost a few jpegs when I was a jpeg only shooter but, thus far, shooting raw I haven't had any issues.

I shoot raw + small jpeg (compressed) in order to quickly put together slideshows at the reception site using the small jpegs. The last wedding I did I was able to upload ~1100 sm jpegs and create a ~40-50 image slideshow in UNDER 30 minutes. It's amazing when you do this...because it's like working a bridal show once you get the slideshow up and running...the last wedding I did I talked to at least 3 different very solid leads for upcoming weddings and I hadn't even finished shooting the one I was at!!! LOL

(sorry, can never resist the opportunity to sing the praises of slideshows and viral marketing opportunities!)

Ditto.

I've found this a really effective and quick way of producing s/show's at the reception.
Carl

I'm usually one or the other, but not both. The only thing that has ever really SAVED me has been file recovery software. I'm amazed what it can do. I've had the fewest problems with ScanDisk cards.

If your camera takes a while to write the image after it's captured, make sure you let it do its necessary "thinking" before trying to preview it or turn off your camera. That's where I've heard most people running into problems... not letting the buffer unload after a rapid fire shoot. Also, I'm sure you know this, but always format your cards instead of deleting, just to get rid of any corrupt info that may be lingering.

I have wondered if I unconciously did something to cause the corruption. I can't say. But yes, I always format in camera. In fact, each card get's formated with one of the cameras during the pre-event checklist, and then, time permitting, when a new card is inserted at the event, it's checked for images (I'm paranoid) and then reformatted to the specific body. I have so many cards now, I may assign specific cards to specific camera bodies. Hmmm. That may be getting too anal. Thanks Anne!

michael

Hi Michael,

I don't know if you've sorted out the problem but the easiest way is not to download the raw files, but to use the small jpg sidecar files. A 2gb card downloads in less than a minute, do a quick sort through, showiteffects them and prepare your slideshow. Now i've got a Macbook pro I just open the folder up in iphoto and run the slideshow tab. Or you can load the folder into showitweb and create a slideshow from there. The whole process takes around 30 minutes for around 100 images.

We use the Lexar pro card readers. They're very fast. Hope this helps.

Carl

Thanks Carl, I'll give it a try!

we used to shoot RAW + small JPG because of the slideshows and such at weddings. but we for sure couldn't use a small JPG for anything other than slideshow and blog. if we were to shoot a RAW + large JPG, I would find it cumbersome with camera writing speed and burst mode.

I shoot RAW+JPG[small] although I have not experienced any single corrupt files (I have had a CF card commit supuku though).

The reason I shoot both is workflow. Really, I just want the EXIF-embedded date/time in the JPG file so that I can rename the RAW file to yymmdd-hhmmss. Then I delete the JPG. I know that data is embedded in the RAW file, but I don't have a utility that can read it and then rename the file. If anyone has a solution for this, that'd be great.