geez. Talk about dodging a bullet (not literally)

[clay]

I shot video at a wedding this evening. Everything went fine until near the end of the reception and I was running out of space on the SD card I was shooting on. So I went to my camera bag to get another card, not really thinking through what I was about to do. So i grabbed another card, stuck it in my camera, and saw that it was full, so I decided to format it. I took a quick look at the thumbnails on the card and assumed it was from something I didn't need. Format. Panic. Oh Sh!t--did I just format the card with the wedding ceremony?

So I finished shooting the event (on a different card) and came home. With bated breath, I started to download cards. And it appears that the card I formatted was a card from a previous shoot (already downloaded and saved), so I averted a minor disaster/headache/disappointment. No footage from the wedding lost. Yay! (blood pressure goes down instantly).

Today was kind of a stressful day anyway, and that would have just capped off my weekend with more stress than I feel like I can deal with right now. This did highlight for me a need for me to come up with an actual system for keeping track of full/empty cards on shoots, rather than just relying on the write lock tab on the cards and tossing them in a little pouch. Any suggestions?

Thanks for listening, I just needed to 'tell' someone. I need a beer now.