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SD card in my laundry
Marty Price, Photographer
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Concord | NC | USA | Posted: 2:33 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> Has anybody ever washed a SD card by accident? I just found one in my washer and am not sure what to do. It went through the whole cycle including softener added to the rinse water. Should I rinse out the softener and then dry or just let it dry out on its own? |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 2:36 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> it'll be fine I do it all the time. makes for cleaner backgrounds. |
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Randy Vanderveen, Photographer
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Grande Prairie | AB | Canada | Posted: 2:56 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> +1 to Chuck's comment. The only problem results if it was full of dirty pictures. |
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 3:17 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> At least it will be Downey fresh when you put it back in the camera. |
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Doug Pizac, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | USA | Posted: 3:52 PM on 08.27.11 |
->> Since it went through the softener cycle all your images written to it will be out of focus from now on.
Seriously, because the unit is solid state there shouldn't be any harm to it as long as it isn't cracked where water could have leaked in. I've had CF cards go through the wash by accident without mishap to what was already on it and what was recorded later. |
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Marty Price, Photographer
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Concord | NC | USA | Posted: 3:56 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> Thanks everybody. I will just let it dry out in a ziplock bag full of rice. Just didn't know if the softener might effect the metal. |
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Kevin Bartram, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peter Zuzga, Photographer
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Waukesha | WI | USA | Posted: 5:49 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> I've lost track of the number of cards I've found in the washer and dryer over the years and never had a problem. |
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Andy Bronson, Photographer
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Bellingham | WA | USA | Posted: 7:13 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> It's dry already, Marty. It should be just fine. I've done it twice adn never had a problem putting back in the camera and using it. BTW, one Sandisk and one Lexar. still using them. |
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Randy Sartin, Photographer, Assistant
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Knoxville | TN | USA | Posted: 10:58 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> I always try to do this to help the re-format process, really cleans up the old files. |
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Luke Johnson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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St.Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 11:02 PM on 08.27.11 |
| ->> I have a CF card I have washed three times. It works perfectly fine. |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 4:01 AM on 08.28.11 |
| ->> My wife refuses to empty my pockets before washing my clothes, so every card I have has been through a few cycles. The most interesting test of CF cards and water/corrosion was when a card fell out of my pocket into the pool in the fall, was covered by a leaf and then a pool cover. Cleaning the pool five months later I found the card and I am still using it to this day. |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 3:21 PM on 08.28.11 |
->> Everybody's done it so often, the answer to the question is becoming, "Yeah? And?"
--Mark |
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Marty Price, Photographer
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Concord | NC | USA | Posted: 5:10 PM on 08.28.11 |
| ->> Thanks everyone, I think I'll keep it as a back up. Never did it with my CF cards but the SD cards are so small that it just slipped by. |
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Guy Rhodes, Photographer
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East Chicago | IN | USA | Posted: 4:38 PM on 08.29.11 |
| ->> I had a CF card end up in the laundry and it was toast afterwards. So, chalk me up in the loss column. |
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Bryon Houlgrave, Photographer
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San Diego County | CA | USA | Posted: 6:02 PM on 08.29.11 |
| ->> I once washed the card and the notebook containing names and info. Card was fine, but I wasn't so lucky with the notebook. |
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