pussy... Last time I had to expose film was by military police...

You could recover those pics if you haven't used the card since.

lithivm

FSM yes! Raging Waters is so much better. Can't believe you even considered going to that hell hole.

lakiolen

you just posted that so you could show off the video.

ZetaCrossfire

@qbrad:
I was thinking the same thing as I read this post.

If you're using Windows, you can try using the freeware utility, Recuva, available @ www.recuva.com. If you haven't taken too many photos after this stint (i.e. overwritten the sectors where the said deleted photos were) you should be able to recover most, if not all, of those images.

I've used it before many times with what I personally believe to be a very high success rate. Works like a charm on any document. I've recovered files as large as 1.4 GB!

On the other hand, if you're using a Mac, I can't help you as I'm not familiar with any freeware recovery utilities available. But, as this is a pretty big site, I'm sure someone has some expertise on the matter.

AmbroseP

^^^what qbrad said, do that and you should be able to find at least one of them, your camera couldn't have overwritten it that quickly.

VeloriumSatire

Yeah, as long as you haven't filled the card with photos already, they should still be sitting there waiting for you. It's saved my ass a few times now.

This is the one I use: Smart Recovery

reckless_inoz

What about some image recovery software made for cards that "lost" photos?

qbrad

I went to the waterworld in Galveston TX last weekend... Un-friggin-real.

DustyButt

FYI just because a security guard says that you have to do something for them does not always necessarily mean you do. Security guards are just private citizens who have a working knowledge of somne pertinent laws, and in depth training in how to assert particular civil rights.

Lying like a rug is one of those rights.

Some things, like whether or not they are actually cops is one thing they can't lie about. This is why they wear uniforms. They are tailored to look as much like cops as possible without actually breaking the law. If you somehow see the uniform and assume they are cops that is your own problem.

It is entirely possible you were not actually legally required to destroy your film

bombastinator

Oh geez, I totally forgot that a 4-year-old drowned in the waterpark a few years ago.

rfaulder

I guess I have some civic pride to live in the same city as North America's Largest Indoor Waterpark, also in the continent's largest mall (if you count those giga-malls in Asia that are only half-filled with stores).

[www.westedmall.com]

No deaths in that one, that title belongs to the worlds tallest indoor rollercoaster, also in the mall, back in '86.
There was a problem with cockroaches a few years ago, though.

rfaulder

Raging Waters in San Dimas, CA is my favorite.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Fun fact: Concord's Waterworld is also known as Staphworld by some of the parents in the area. The price of admission comes with an illness or infection for your kid.
Thanks Six Flags!

itmustbeken

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Hell yes! Waterworld is so shitty compared to Raging Waters!

SomeoneUKno

i love how you said he convienced yo to delete the photos... i think you mean told/forced...

but as far as the camera and waterslides... i think i make that same "this is great but kind of hurts face" when i do waterslides too

purple-pillows

I returned my W60. The pictures looked slightly better than camera phone quality. Maybe mine was defective but the camera just made me mad.

Canon or Nikon should make a waterproof camera. 7MP with a decent lens in a waterproof case and they'll have trouble keeping up with demand.

Tank

As a person who works in the photo department of a newspaper, let me tell you he had no right to have you remove the images. They can tell you not to photograph due to it being private property but you could have told him to shove it on formatting or erasing. You just leave the property with the camera.

OldCrow

ManualCorrect: START
Ok, first off I have lived in the SF Bay area and I live no more than 15 min. from Waterworld. Another thing is that[Suggestion: Secondly,] when at a water park stuff like that will happen. S*** happens. I have never seen nor heard of anything since the incident in '97. All in all water parks aren't the safest of "amusement" parks. And if you're that afraid of getting hurt you could always stick with the lazy river and just float there and get your tan on [Suggestion: . ] and have fun and you won't get hurt unless a bunch of kids decide to be dumb. All water parks have lazy rivers. And agreed with the raging waters thing.

/END

Yes, it was fun.

dizzytired

of fist off i have live in the SF bay area and i live no more then 15 min. from water world. another thing is that when at a water park stuff like that will happen. @!$& happens. i have never seen or heard of anything since the incident in '97. all in all waterparks rn't the safest of "amusement" parks. and if ur that afraid of getting hurt then u could always stick w/ the lazy river and just float there and get ur tan on and have fun and u won't get hurt unless a bunch of kids decide to be dumb. all water parks have lazy rivers. and agreed w/ the raging waters thing.

kswiss19

@SomeoneUKno: Pfft, what's waterworld ;)

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Oh hell yeah! Concord! I live right in Pittsburg and I can honestly say I haven't went to that place since the slide collapsed in 97.

rifdawg

As long as there are no signs prohibiting photography, you did nothing wrong and they CANNOT demand of you to clear the memory card. Anybody requiring this of you is violating your photographic rights. Now, if they request this of you you cannot continue, because you are on their property - and if you do photograph against their wishes they can escort you off the property or call the 5-0. However under NO circumstances do they own your images therefore they have no ability to do as they please with them. Maybe contact a lawyer to see what kind of recourse you can achieve from this? It might be considered destruction of property or theft in some way. Never take that shit lying down, otherwise they'll only continue.

And if all else fails, you can photograph all you want against their wishes as long as you are standing on public property. I pissed off a hotel owner with that one, but when he called the cops the officer talked to me about cameras as I shot some more, standing just off the sidewalk on the road.

Tommasta

Nice, the Giz made a visit to my hometown. ^_^

Anticitizen

I got the I got the 1030W. It just seemes like a better camera to me. I use the Micro SD adapter to get rid of the aweful xD cards. The whole things seems to work well.

One thing you have to learn is not to go back and delete the photos off the camera. You need to just buy a big card so you never worry about not having enough room, then once you copy the images to your computer you can delete them and re-format your card.

HJTravels

I've been living in the East Bay for 5 years and haven't been to Waterworld in Concord. This post makes me glad I never went.

AJ_Syrinx

@Tommasta

Did you really just suggest legal action for deleting pictures? Thats pretty petty.

xshortx

The security guard couldn't make him delete the photos, but, as he said... if he didn't, he would have been asked to leave the park, and the security guard would have been within his rights to act on that threat.

Elliuotatar

@Tommasta: can see a benefit to those weird eye fi cards [www.eye.fi] ... wirelessly upload them to ur iphone or some laptop in your shoulder bag...@SomeoneUKno: raging waters owns!!! havent been there in a while since i dont live in cali.

urbanturban666

Since I live in Concord I can and will gladly confirm that Waterworld is Complete crap. Everytime someone gives them money Baby Jesus weeps.

BlackMage66652

@lithivm
@bombastinator
@OldCrow
@purple-pillows
@Tommasta

"My sense is that I didn't have to delete the photos and never have before during work related activities. But I would have had to leave the park right then and there and I wasn't ready to make that call for our entire group of 10"

he knew he did not have to delete them - no need to repeat the standard "you never have to delete photos" mantra.

juggler314

PhotoRec will do the trick at the right price (free), although I suspect that if you have taken new photos on the same SD card you will have overwritten at least some stuff.

[www.cgsecurity.org]

kingshaun

Ooooh, you're going to Raging Waters (I assume in Sacramento) next? I went there as a kid when it was called (ironically enough) Waterworld, then Six Flags bought them out after I moved away, but now I see that it's independently owned again.

Loved that park, especially the cliffhanger slides. It was a tradition that our swim team would go there at least once a summer.

theblackdog

You got paid to do this? I need a vocation check.

N@tedog

I recently deleted some pictures accidentally, and it only took a few minutes of googling to find a free program that recovered them easily. I can't remember the name, but if you look around, you should be able to find it.

johnrhoward

Thanks, no longer does the name "Waterworld" conjure up images of Kevin Costner drinking pee... thanks for replacing some great childhood memories.

JB

@bombastinator and Tommasta: as some others have already stated, they can't force you to delete the pictures, but they can ask you to leave the park. As Brian stated, he made the choice to not leave, so his only recourse was to delete the pics. This is of course why I always carry a blank memory card in an easily accessible pocket, so I an make a surreptitious switch when someone tells me to stop taking pictures.

This has worked on multiple occasions for me.

zenpoet

That waterworld doesn't really suck. I go there every summer with my cousins and everyone and it's fun. Here are some facts or tips.

On twister, I have a cousin who is a piro and a dare devil, and right before we went down the hill into the half pipe, he jumped off the raft and rode the ride like a body slide. As we went up the half pipe, we crashed into him. It was so funny. And when the ride was over, the life guard was shaking her head, and then he came out of the ride about 30 seconds after we did and she was screaming "Are you kidding me?! You could've killed yourself out there!"

The body slides that bounce or go straight down. They both hurt. The straight down one is scary because right when you go down, you float up off the slide. The bouncing one is more fun but you get really bad back burns on it when you hit the water. After about my 5th time on it, I was screaming "Oh my god! My back!" And then the lifeguard yelled back "Are you ok?"

The tunneled body slides. There are 2 open and 2 closed. Just like the one posted in the video above. The 4th slide. The tunnel one on the very left, is scary because at one point, you go through this very fast spiral, and when I was on it, I had my head up to see if I could see anything, and when I went through the spiral, it slammed my head back on the slide and it hurt like hell. One time when we were waiting to get on that ride, they made us wait in like for like 20 minutes or so, because a kid hit his head on the bottom of the pool as he came out of the slide. I would not recomnend going on the 1st slide. The open one. because when you come out, the floor is shallower there then the other ones and you slam your feet down onto the bottom and it hurts.

The tubed slides. 2 open and 2 closed again. Those are fun. The closed ones are better cause they go fast. But they haven't opened the open ones anyway in a while because i think they are repairing them. But when I went on the closed slide with my cousin, the one who jumped off the raft. He tipped the tube raft thing over and we fell out and we on the slide. And let me tell you. The water doesn't push you for shit. Im like 180 pounds. Im not fat. And he tipped the slide over in the middle and I had to crawl my way through the whole slide. When we got out the lifeguard was yelling at us, and we just told him that we fell off on one of the turns.

LaynerzT

Waterworld has been going downhill ever since that group of kids died here when the tube broke.

I'll be sure to let the Mayor of Concord know about your issues.
[www.mayorofconcord.com]

koka_sexton

Isn't that the water park from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure?

JeffBuzz

MediaRecover is a program that works on SD and CF Cards and does a bit by bit search for images and videos - including RAW images.
I have used it many times, in many situations like this.

Most Flash based devices: SD and CF cards have wearleveling so that the cards don't wear out - so as long as you haven't filled the card since then (more than 40%) there is a really solid chance you've never over written the original data.

Good Luck!

DustinFinn

I've recovered photos I've deleted on a digital camera with an HP photo smart printer. I've put the card in the printer and was able to view photos on the LCD screen on the printer that had been deleted. Once I located the photos on the card I could connect my laptop and save the photo. Obviously if you take new photos you can't do this but If you know how to get your hands on one, try it.

998453sam

"I rode the slide above despite its major joints were leaking acrid, over-chlorinated water. It was fun, but I suppose that's what made it dangerous"

You made a choice. So did your friends. No one put a gun to your head and said "Ride this ride or DIE".

Be a man, take responsibility for your actions, and spare the world the whining. There's already enough real suffering in the world without having to read about your self-induced imagined suffering.

SpareMePlz

Hey what do you mean it sucks? There's a sizzler and Denny's in walking distance, there are a ton of whiny kids acting like chupacabra, and like 15 teenagers died when they decided to pile up in one spot on the biggest slide! Haunted water park? The Pentax w60 better have some night vision to accompany that under water slickness.

KayLorton

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MontgomeryAphaea

@JeffBuzz: IMDB sez:
The scene when Napoleon slides down the waterslides at "Waterloo", was filmed at Golfland/Sunsplash waterpark in Mesa, Arizona.

So...no.

strangepork

@dizzytired: I was tired when I wrote that. But thanks for the corrections.

kswiss19

@koka_sexton: Waterworld has been going downhill ever since that group of kids died here when the tube broke.

that's because the kids were idiots. they tried to stuff the whole freaking class at the top and all go down together. instead they broke the slide and fell off. it was truly a darwin moment.

doofusgumby

My High School was the one involved in the 1997 accident. It was a really sad year to go to the graduation. Many Students crossed the stage in wheel chairs or pushed on a gurney and the Media was everywhere.

Yet more than 10 years later it looks like safety is not a major concern for the park.

Venport