Card or Camera issue on D1X

[Gil]

I joined this group earlier this week when I bought my first S2 to back up my D1X. So far, so good with both camera.
While on a photoshoot assignment where opportunity to capture the pictures where limited, I was shooting large Tiff's when the camera strated hesitating recording and not showing the previews. In fact, when I was trying to review the images in a hurry and scrolling through them, I read an error message saying Card contains no images. It did that a couple of times and then it would skip to the next pictures. I replaced the card and continued to shoot with anothe card. (I am using 1-Gig Promaster cards) I finished the shoot a couple of hours later and when I got home I noticed that the first card did record many images and some files did not record properly at all and there was no data in these files. I also noticed the same thing on another card in only one or two occasions. Could it be that I was shooting tha camera too fast and demanding to see previews at too fast of recycle time. I guess I could have stomped the camera. My shoot was an aerial assignment from a helicopter where we had limited pockets of air space availability. There was no time to skow down. We had no doors in tha back of the helicopter and me and mu assistant friend had a hard time communicating with all the wind and movements, even with the head sets on the wind would interfere. All these circumstances made it hard to slow down and act rational :confused:.


Thanks in advance for reading my LOONG boring story....
Any thoughts?

Gil

[Swampy]

Have you shot Tiff's before with the D1x with that card? Next question would probably be why shoot tiff's? They take a long time to write and chew through battery power much quicker that way. I would have shot raw then converted to tiff with the computer later and the file writing would have gone much, much faster.

The only thing I can think that could have happened is that the battery had the extra drain on it while writing the larger files and that particular card may have a higher power draw than your other card. On top of that, you're doing reviewing on the LCD which is drawing more power, but you shouldn't have been able to see any pics (except with preview mode where it pops the shot up on the lcd for a few seconds after you shoot it) until the card was finished writing.

It's definitly an odd occurence and I've never experienced it with the D1x, however, I've never shot in tiff with the D1x either. hehe