5Dm2 recording interrupted - ML flushed & file gone

[grandpa_bokeh]

Hello all,

I was on a shoot today filming with the 5Dm2 and the latest version of magic lantern. About 6 minutes into a clip, I bumped the tripod/camera slightly on the floor, which was apparently enough to stop recording. The screen went black, and was getting some flashing on the number of images remaining (top panel.) Turning off/on had no effect (the top panel remained on), so I popped out the battery and put it back in.

upon turning on, there was a flicker apparent in live view, which lasted for about 5 minutes.

yet, the most disconcerting thing was that the file I recorded just flat-out disappeared. No corrupt file on the card, no gap in file names... it's as if I never recorded something I know I did. In addition, my magic lantern settings appeared to be flushed (ML was still on the card, but no focus peaks as I had them set.)

Is there any way to get this back, or is the footage gone? I apologize if this is not an issue related to ML (not sure... had to take out the battery when shooting B-roll previously on the camera, pretty sure it was ML.)

Thanks!

[Francis]

Sounds like a hardware issue. I'm guessing that you bumping it and it breaking were not coincidental. You can try to use some data recovery software, but it sounds like the file was never really created so it will probably be difficult to recover.

How is everything acting now? Any continued issues or was it just for those few minutes?

[grandpa_bokeh]

yeah, I also suspect it was a hardware issue. It was the bump that definitely triggered it, I was just a bit concerned that it was ML that caused the camera to hang after the initial bump... especially since on reboot ML settings were flushed. Might be unrelated though.

camera is fine now (phew.)

can't find anything on the internet about this issue, so I'm just crossing my fingers that it was a one time thing that never happens again, and I'll try to avoid moving my tripod while recording in the future...