As it turns out, I did not use my big camera to capture a picture of the hawk that was in my back yard. Not for lack of trying, mind you. Fully charged battery, check. Bird lens, check. I grabbed my memory card out of my card reader and went to slam it into my camera, and. Uh. It wouldn’t go in.
Instead I took an exceptionally lousy picture through my landing room window which is not terribly clean at the best of times, and through the screen, with my phone.
I have no idea where the lock switch for that card is. I can tell you exactly where that busted off piece of plastic was: Inside my camera’s card slot, trapped by the pins at the bottom of the socket. Hence why I could not get this card or indeed any card to go in far enough to lock, let alone connect. No amount of shaking, tapping, or smacking would dislodge it. I had to retrieve my pair of exceptionally tiny tweezers which naturally were in the garage, which meant going out the back door, which meant scaring off the hawk.
In other news, a direct replacement for this thing now costs three times more than what I originally paid for it, because of course it does.
Gods damned Rampocalypse.
While I wait for my replacement to show up, the largest spare I have on hand that’s not already gainfully employed in some other device is apparently a 128 meg one from who knows when. Some time around the turn of the millennium, I’m sure. In case you were wondering, my R10 reckons can fit twenty six full quality exposures onto this card. It’s like I’m back to running around with a roll of film.
Needless to say this has rather cramped my style for the last couple of days.
You might be able to put the actual board of the SD card into a new case.
I remember salvaging one from an adaptor, although iirc those are a bit flimsy.
Maybe they make new empty ones for that purpose?
I’ve done that before, but I’m not entirely certain the form factor of the board inside the shell is the same across manufacturers and capacities anymore. Maybe you could get away with it but I already had to pick bits of broken card shell out of my camera once this week. This would also require eviscerating one of my increasingly antique vintage cards for a donor shell, and I keep those around because their hilarity value increases progressively with time.
I also briefly toyed with the idea of attempting to 3D print a replacement shell. That’d require some quite fine tolerances, but if I took the time out of my day to stick my 0.2mm nozzle in my printer I’ll bet you I could do it.
But since this card purportedly has a warranty I ultimately decided I could not be arsed.
Oh, I always forget that warrantied exist, I haven’t had great luck with them so far…
I looked it up and apparently bought this card at the nadir of flash memory prices or something. I have $20 in it. (I paid $35 for the new one, which is a slower speed class by one rank. Another one of the exact same card is now $67.) So it’s more of the principle of the thing than anything else. I want Sandisk to fork over a new $67 card, because fuck them for pricing it that way. Especially for them temporarily breaking my camera.
Hopefully they honour the warranty. I miss the days when flash storage was cheap, or any new-ish hardware at all…