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by Mike McNamee Published 01/12/2016

How Tough are Today's Memory Cards?

Not that long ago when Micro Drive CF* cards were one of the only games in town a momentary lapse could lose you an awful lot of images. We know of one couple of pro photographers who dropped a camera and trashed a micro drive card right at the end of a six week business trip to the States! How things have moved on!

There are tales a plenty about solid state CF and SD cards surviving trips through a washing machine cycle but a recent experience shows how battle hardened the cards have become.

A woman was fishing at Hesperia Lake in Southern California on recently when she reeled in a professional Nikon DSLR. NBC Los Angeles reported that Shelly Hirst originally thought she had hooked a large branch, but discovered that it was a camera upon pulling it out of the water. Even though the Nikon DSLR was badly damaged from submersion in the lake, the SD card inside the camera still worked. Hirst discovered over 1,700 photos on the card, with the last one featuring a timestamp of May 10th, 2016. After a search, she eventually discovered that it belonged to a photojournalist who had been attacked while covering a story.

A friend soon got in touch and told Hirst that a photojournalist named David Pardo of the Victorville Daily Press had been attacked at the lake back in May 2016 while shooting for a story.

While photographing families enjoying the lake, Pardo was asked by a woman to delete a photo he had taken of her feeding a duck.

After Pardo refused and explained that it was a public place; two men joined the woman and confronted the photographer, punching him, knocking him to the ground, stomping on his equipment, and then finally throwing Pardo�s two cameras and a cell phone into the lake.

The attacker and the woman were later arrested and charged with robbery, assault, and felony vandalism.

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