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    Nov 20, 2018 5 minutes

    Card trouble

    Half way during a trip to Morocco my Compact Flash (CF) card failed; I managed to download two-thirds of my photos directly from the camera to my PC, but then the card died on me.

    After visiting a few photography forums for solutions, the general consensus was that the controller chip within the CF had gone and no rescue software in the land could save it. Some people advised me to just bin it, but I was also recommended to try a firm in Germany that gave me a positive response when I contacted them. Two days after receiving my card they informed me that all my images were retrieved. Their rates were reasonable and I would thoroughly recommend them.

    This got me thinking: do I abandon my beloved D700 for

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