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Subject: Re: [Leica] Is digital photography necrophilia?
From: Pete Su <psu@kvdpsu.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:55:48 -0400

if you want to check that kind of thing, you just take along a 2-3lb PC 
laptop with a 40GB drive in it.

might still be lighter than 300 rolls of film.

Pete

On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 14:39 US/Eastern, Jim Laurel wrote:

> Tina-
> Using the Digital Albums, how do you determine if your DSLR sensor has
> gathered dust throughout the day?  Of course, how would you "know" 
> that your
> camera isn't scratching your film?
>
> I realize the MAJOR benefit of digital whenever I sit down at the film
> scanner!
>
> --Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Is digital photography necrophilia?
>
>
>> Jim -
>>
>> One of the reasons I've gone digital for long trips is to save my
>> knees.  One 10 ounce Digital Album holds 20 GB of photos and weighs 
>> much
>> less than the 300 rolls of film I would need to carry and get through
> every
>> airport inspection.  I also carry a portable CD burner - very small 
>> and
>> light.  Both operate on AA batteries.  I can leave both downloading 
>> in the
>> hotel room or tent while I go down to the bar or hammock ;-)
>>
>> Tina
>>
>>
>> At 10:32 AM 10/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>> I will be in the Far East for a month this November, then in North 
>>> Africa
>>> for a month in Dec/Jan.  I think I'll invite B.D. along to guard the
> $10,000
>>> worth of digital accessories (laptops, hard drives, satphones, etc)
> whenever
>>> I walk away from the car to shoot, and to haul the two 30lb Pelican 
>>> cases
>>> that contain it all in and out of hotels and inns, onto buses, 
>>> trains,
> etc.
>>> Oh, and when surly border officials question us about why we are 
>>> carrying
> a
>>> bunch of spy equipment, it will suddenly all belong to B.D!  "Gee 
>>> sir, I
>>> don't know anything about that stuff.  It belongs to this guy here.
>>> No...sorry, I don't know him at all".  Every evening, I'll have him 
>>> do
> the
>>> downloading and backing up, while I go down to the bar.  When we get
> back,
>>> we can all quiz him on the wonders of digital photography.
>>>
>>> All in fun!   ;-)
>>>
>>> --Jim (tongue firmly in cheek)
>>
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
>>
>>
>> http://www.pdiphotos.com
>> http://www.workbookstock.com
>> http://www.newscom.com
>> http://www.americanphotojournalist.com
>>
>>
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