I just made my sister very happy by recovering lost photos from her last holliday that were still on a flash card but unreadable. If you ever need a tool like this the best one for this job in my experience is PhotoRec. It doesn't have a great user interface, but it works very well and is available on a number of plattforms. If you don't know exactly what option to choose when it asks you something, just pick the default (just be sure to select the right drive to recover from and a folder on your hd to save the recovered images to).

As I wrote in my previous blog posts (post 1, post 2) I am currently testing several methods to see if video material from the 5D Mark II can be converted to 25p. I also uploaded a couple of shots to youtube, links are below.

I will shoot some more tests with the 5D tomorrow with DoP Philip Leutert and post more results soon. (Update: blog posting about these tests is here)

Two weeks ago, a few friends from my film school took the Canon 5D Mark II to the Ostsee coast to test whether it would be suitable for the short film they want to shoot in August. They gave me the material they shot so I could try various retiming methods to see if it was possible to get a decent looking 25p copy of the material. (Update: I have since shot some more tests, read about them here. Update Nr 2: I have written two extensive blog posts on how retiming works and how to do it in After Effects. Find them here.)

I just started to give twitter (my twitter feed) and flickr (my photostream) a try. Some of their networking tools are indeed nice.

Also, expect a report about my after effects frame rate conversion tests for the Canon 5D Mark II here soon (30p -> 25p).