Artifacts on Alexa

[Gaetan Charest]

A SXS chip has been reformatted by accident in a sony PWM 200. As soon as the formatting was completed we pull the chip out of the camera.

WE need to recover the material (priceless) from the SXS card which is formatted UDF. is there any chance to recover?

[Gary Adcock]

[Gaetan Charest] “WE need to recover the material (priceless) from the SXS card which is formatted UDF. is there any chance to recover?”

If there is only a single take on the card, it is lost, if there are multiple takes, there is a good chance the data can be recovered.

It is not simple nor is it inexpensive, did you talk to the people that rented you the camera? That would be the first place to start.

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[Gaetan Charest]

We own our camera, So we don’t have anywhere to go. Good news–if any–we have multiple shots on the chip maybe 20 or more.