Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, Don't make it hard on yourself. The memory card is a drive just like the hard drive on your computer. All you need is a card reader and you can download the files any where you want. The issue is the raw files. Not every program can read raw files, Leica, Canon, Nikon or whatever. Maybe 4 or 5 programs can. If your computer were in New York and you were in Europe, what would you download the photos to? That computer would need one of the software packages loaded to see them. Your friend was right about shooting jpeg in that situation. Every graphics software package made can read jpeg. A kiosk can certainly print jpeg files. Really doubt if they can print anybodies raw files. Len On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:24 PM, dnygr wrote: > A friend lent me his M8 and I've taken some photos with it. I shot > in RAW. > > I'd like to download the images, but from what he says, there is a > limit (two times) to the number of computers one can load the Leica > software into that came with the camera. > > Can this be? Why would I buy a camera that limits where I can > download it? If I'm in Europe, wants to download photos and my > computer is in New York City, am I to wait until I return before I > can download my photos. > > My friend says I can buy additional download capability. If I've > paid $4800 for a camera, why would I want to spend more. I guess if > the company is going broke that makes sense, but I would imagine > you would want to make your camera as user friendly as possible and > as widely assissible as possible. There must be something that > hasn't been explained to me. Why would I want a camera that limits me? > > My friend advised I shoot in JPEG. Why would I do that? Why would > he do that? If you buy great equipment, you want your images in the > best form all the time. You have greater use of them, that way. > > BTW, can I take the memory chip and have a kiosk print the photos > on it? > > Thanks for your help. > Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information