One distinct advantage of film

[PaulDalex]

Tim,
an SDC card is not so small.
What I would is to grab a very powerful torch and look into every aperture slot hole there is in a car

 

[ranger9]

Take your car to a detail shop, get a full interior detail, and tell them you lost a memory card down the side of the console and you would like for them to get it back. They have the tools, experience, and skinny fingers to reach all the hiding places. Plus, you'll feel a lot better when you're sitting in your car's sparkling-clean interior.

 

[Timmyjoe]

Tim,
an SDC card is not so small.
What I would is to grab a very powerful torch and look into every aperture slot hole there is in a car

Thanks for the suggestion, I did that when I first got home yesterday. Got my dive light (scuba diving) which is ungodly powerful and went over the whole interior of the car. Nothing.

I'm now thinking that possibly the card bounced and was stuck somehow to my clothing, and when I jumped out of the car at the rally to search for it under the driver's seat, it may have dropped off my clothing and landed on the ground outside of the car. Otherwise I can't figure out what happened to it as I've torn out most of the interior on the driver's side of the car.

Best,
-Tim

 

[Pál_K]

The seat belt clamp attachment is on an arm that pivots and consequently there is a gap which allows that movement. The card could’ve fallen into that gap.

 

[rulnacco]

I'd be a bit leery about trying this on something as delicate as an SD card. But whenever I am working on cameras/lenses, I always vacuum thoroughly around my work area, and empty out the debris chamber. Then if I drop a small spring/screw/ball bearing, I can vacuum around the area and won't have to sift through much dust & dirt to find it. Works every time!

The SD card is a bit bigger, so should be easier to find. If you have a home vacuum cleaner with attachments that would allow it to get into all the nooks and crannies in your car, and then set it on the lowest speed possible, you might be able to find it that way. You might even want to put some kind of net-like material--say that stuff they use at grocery stores to bag oranges--in between the hose and the attachment nozzle so that the card doesn't make the potentially destructive trip through the rest of the vacuum cleaner's plumbing. If you catch it right there, it will *probably* survive the experience, I'd believe.

 

[farlymac]

I opened up a Yashica YF once while in the car to change film, and the little film loading diagram came fluttering out of it. I just saw it out of the corner of my eye, not sure of where it went. I searched for half an hour, checked my jacket pocket, looked around the outside of the vehicle, and checked it again when I got home and was able to acquire one of my brightest flashlights. Looked at both seats, behind and under, and even in the part where the back meets the bottom. Nothing! Well, not exactly, I did find three nickles and a dime.

So the diagram was likely still in the vehicle when I traded it in some years later. Someone will probably find it and demand that their mechanic put it back where it belongs.

PF

 

[580/Q]

Good argument for:
1. Twin card slots
2. Downloading card-in-camera to device with USB cable (or BT/WiFi/NFC if you have the patience -- still faster than film)

I feel your pain. I misplace stuff bigger than memory cards on an hourly basis.

In sympathy,

Shane

 

[580/Q]

.......You might even want to put some kind of net-like material--say that stuff they use at grocery stores to bag oranges--in between the hose and the attachment nozzle so that the card doesn't make the potentially destructive trip through the rest of the vacuum cleaner's plumbing. If you catch it right there, it will *probably* survive the experience, I'd believe.

I know a guy.... uses a very large tupperware bottom, like the size of a biiiig casserole/lasagne, as a catch basin for stuff he's doing stuff with.

 

[Bolo Kukus]

Film?? Oh yeah, that. Four and a half hours to shoot it. As many hours to process, wash and dry it - in fact longer, my films usually takes all night to dry.

Then as many hours sitting in front of a PC/laptop and loading/unloading a scanner. Oh, and the post processing too.

I'm not pro-digital/anti-film, but 'analog' isn't a panacea for everything that ails us with digital.

Accidents happen. As the OP has found out. I hope it's a one-off for him. Lesson learned. We have all done this. With film too.

But that darn card of his has to be somewhere. Did it fall into The Invisible Hole?? An alternate universe...

 

[p.giannakis]

Then as many hours sitting in front of a PC/laptop and loading/unloading a scanner. Oh, and the post processing too.

This is my favourite time of the week. Saturday night scanning new film. The best 4 hours of the week.

 

[olakiril]

This is my favourite time of the week. Saturday night scanning new film. The best 4 hours of the week.

For me it was printing in the darkroom. I have yet to find a replacement therapy.

 

[p.giannakis]

For me it was printing in the darkroom. I have yet to find a replacement therapy.

I did this for some time but my darkroom is in my garage and it is not always warm and cosy in there. It is mostly something I will do in summers. I do see your point though.

 

[Erik van Straten]

One distinct advantage of film is that I can use all those beautiful old film cameras I have.

gelatin silver print (color skopar 50mm f2.5) leica m2 black paint

Erik.

 

[Bolo Kukus]

This is my favourite time of the week. Saturday night scanning new film. The best 4 hours of the week.

Me too. With a glass of good red wine and nice jazz on the stereo. But we aren't supposed to admit to any of this...

 

[Erik van Straten]

Another advantage of film is that it is easier to find a used negative, just mark it on the page of the negative album. Digital code numbers are very clumsy.

gelatin silver print (m elmar 50mm f3.5) leica m2

Erik.

 

[Tom R]

No batteries. No need for expensive post processing software.I clean scanned negative with Affinity's healing and in-painting tools: quick and effective.

Slower, more reflective, hence productive workflow. Very robust: I have the physical negative. Oh, and when I need images that "look like film" I actually have them.

The only advantages I have with digital process are: ease of travel, and speed of product delivery. As I'm retired for these last three years (and Covid has been raging), I really don't need to travel by airplane and I don't have strict deadlines ... for anything, but that poses its own challenges.

 

[Bill Clark]

I wonder, with a clean vacuum tank, and an attachment, one of those that is shaped like a small slit, run it where you believe the card dropped. See what happens. Maybe you will get lucky!

 

[bcostin]

It'll turn up. Maybe stuck to the grease in the rails on which the seats slide, under the edges of plastic panels, or some other obscure spot. It'll probably be right next to all my lost lens caps.

I wonder if there's a design for a 3D printed "SD card extractor" tool with a slightly springy action to hold the card while you eject it from of the camera. Would be handy when wearing heavy gloves.

 

[kshapero]

Maybe you should not give any attention to protesters in the first place, regardless of what side of the fence they are on. I prefer more positive subjects. In any case losing a SD card is a drag. Also I have done dumb things with film also. Bottom line be more careful with film and digital.😕

 

[pixelated]

It's likely still there somewhere, both of my cars are good at hiding things, so I do sympathize.
Note that if you go as far as removing the seats, and your seats have airbags, you may need to disconnect the battery before unhooking the wiring to the seat to avoid setting an airbag fault code in the car's computer.

My lost memory card tale is several years ago, one winter I accidentally ejected a card from my Palm Pilot in my driveway. I didn't realize it until later, and there were several inches of snow on the ground at the time. A year plus later, my wife found it in the flower bed bordering the driveway, I tried it out in a card reader and it was fine.