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'Sup guys.

Got to shoot a scene from inside a school looking out the window and all needs to be properly exposed.
Dual ISO to the rescue!

But not.
For some reason, I have spent hours trying to fathom, Dual Iso option remains disabled, saying I should be in RAW mode (which I am).
Any help welcome, as shoot is in 24h!

Thanks!

Hi guys,

Too wrecked to write much, so here goes:
5D mkiii feature film shot in magic RAW files.
All fine, beautiful images. We wallow in our own self-congratulation.
We move an external hard disc (usually connected to mac) to a PC for backup.
In the transfer, something happens, we lose all files.
3 days shoot with about 30 actors, small budget shoot, cannot re-shoot. Film gone.

So I try all sorts of recovery softwares, and found, in a folder called 'found', many 'CHK' extension files, which have the size and date suggesting they could be the lost RAW files.

I have tried CHK recognition softwares, but none seem to help me open them.
Just changing the extension to RAW does help either.

Can anyone suggest anything? A way of having these files (almost certainly RAW) opened?
A way to salvage maybe their contents?

You have no idea of the angst here in our team... :-(

Many thanks guys.

Hi guys,

Practiced for some weeks then now started: I am shooting a feature movie with 5D3, 3 months shoot, over 100 actors, etc.
Today I shot difficult scenes with a full team, and 15 actors, a total of 120gb of RAW files on a Komputerbay CF card. I checked and all was there.
Then, on my nacbook, the card froze, couldnt be expelled. I forced expelled it.
It would then only mount with strange characters (EOS^DIGIT@L), and ...everything inside gone.
Disk utility shows the disk is empty.
I tried a quick scan on a data recovery and showed nothing.
This was our first days shoot, and it would be a double nightmare if we could not get all the files back.
Has anyone known of this happening? And, obviously, can anyone suggest what could be done?
(many CF card recovery softwares, but they all seem to only salvage pictures or videos, not massive RAW files).
Many thanks,

Ivan