Another Bit Of Misfortune

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I’ve always heard that bad luck comes in threes.  My first recent experience was my Lightroom Classic catalog mysteriously becoming corrupted.  After some persistence, I was able to use a backup catalog to restore things back to normal.  You can read about that here.

A few days later I discovered that a large number of my image files on the external hard drive on which I keep all my image files became corrupt in the fact that the files no longer contained any information!  They had 0 bytes of data.  After two days and a lot of troubleshooting to figure out what happened, how it could have happened, how extensive the loss of files was and then replacing the corrupt files (1318 in about 50 different folders) with identical files from an old backup hard drive, I was able to get through that.  I did lose sleep, hair and 10 lbs. of weight worrying! (Not really)  You can read about that whole mess here.

Well, a third incidence of misfortune occurred last weekend.  I was out photographing some ospreys (including the one at the top of this post) with my OM-1 Mark II and 50-200mm f/2.8 lens when, out of the blue, an orange icon of a memory card appeared in my EVF telling me there was a card error!  This is the first card failure I’ve experienced since I started photographing with digital cameras in 2001.  Luckily, the OM camera has two card slots and I had the second one set to automatically back up the first.  No images lost.  For those who may be interested, it was a Lexar 1667X 128gb UHSII, V90 SDXC card.  To be fair, the card is about 8 years old and has had a lot of use over the years.  Typicallly, I take my cards out of service after about 5 years so I may have had some responsibility in this.

The upshot of all this is I’m now sitting back, smiling, enjoying every day as I know that if misfortune comes in threes, I’ve paid my dues.  I'm now on easy street. I don’t expect any bad luck to come my way for a long time!  But watch out, you could be next!  lol.

Note about the image at the top of the post:  Knowing that I would need to extensively crop this image as the osprey was a great distance away, during editing I first used the Super Resolution feature in LR, edited it, then cropped to what would have been originally resulted in a 1mp finished file.  Not too bad for a 20mp micro4/3 sensor.  The OM 50-200mm f/2.8 lens I used is ‘magical’ and I give it credit for this image holding up as well as it has.

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Dennis A. Mook  

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