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Anonymous Posted on Feb 01, 2012

I can't get rid of Error message on my Konica Minolta Z5 : SD card seems blocked, even after reformatting, because some pix may have been rotated 90 degrees ???

2Gb SD cards are mawimum size to handle ! It seems that Z5 is too slow to save a picture that has been shoot : it needs some hundreds of a seconds probably, which is NOT instantaneous ! If you shoot photos too fast, then you block your system ! You'll have to upload all photos to your computer, then format your SD card with your Z5 camera (if not do it by clicking right on the letter representing the SD 'hard disk' on the computer, choosing Format, FAT (16), 32bits chunks, Fast Format, and then it will be recognized by Z5). Then you can possible reformat it again using the Z5, if needed. SD card then is new to work. BUT !!! if you want to get back your old photos, then copy those previously saved on your computer back onto your SD card, and this sould work ! The big PROBLEM arises when you saved them on your computer, played with the photos by changing names, renaming, denaming back, turning them 90 degrees, re-turning them back etc... I CAN NOT put them back on the SD card without getting an ERROR MESSAGE from my Z5 !!! How the hell this bloody Z5 can not recongnize a photo taken by him, even if it has been renamed or turned 90°, and re-rename-back to previous original name and re-returned back to original place (maybe this is were I did a mistake, 'cause I dunno if I turned it +90° or -90°...)... Anybody knows ????

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The Z5 can display photos that it took. However, it cannot display edited photos. Due to the way the JPEG standard is defined, a rotation of the picture constitutes editing. If you rotate it four times, or once and then undo, it still constitutes editing. If you open a picture and then save it without doing anything else, it still counts as editing. Thus, if you want to put pictures back onto the card, you'll have to use the original pictures.
The proper workflow is to download the pictures to your computer. Then, if you're going to do any work on any of these pictures, do it on copies. This way, if you totally mess up an edit, you'll still have the original.

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