[Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

I found my little pocket pouch containing two Leica batteries and an
SD card in the dryer while unloading the wash.  They all operated
perfectly after the cleansing.

There were images on the SD card.

I think they should make airplanes out of that SD card stuff.


On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:04 PM, David Rodgers <drodgers at casefarms.com> 
wrote:
> I once found a card in the gutter of a busy street. It had been run over
> numerous times. It was bent, wet and cracked. I never dreamed it would
> be readable, but I gave it a try and discovered 256K worth of someone's
> puppy shots.
>
> Cards are tougher than I ever expected. OTOH, if it was something
> important to me it probably would have been fried the moment it touched
> the ground.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dante A Stella [mailto:dstella1 at ameritech.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:08 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?
>
> Great... Now you can have 720 pictures stolen, drenched, or dropped down
> a ravine along with the camera. ?2gb cards manage risk a little better.
>
> Dante
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:48 PM
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?
>
> Interesting finding when inserting an 8 Gig card. :-) For those who have
> not
> done so yet. :-) It's cool! :-)
>
>
>
> If only 50 years ago digital and 8 Gig cards were available I wouldn't
> have
> had to pack 500 to 1000 rolls of film on many of my assignments, simply
> because where I was shooting there weren't any local photo or
> convenience
> stores. So what you needed or thought you might need, you packed the lot
> if
> there was the tiniest of question "I wonder if?". So you took everything
> in
> the way of equipment and film.
>
>
>
> So to my pleasant surprise I bought an 8 Gig card inserted it into the
> M8
> while set on RAW. ?Surprise.. looks like I can shoot 720 frames without
> changing card.. That's over 20 rolls of 36 exp. Tri-X. ?Now if one were
> to
> shoot in JPEG that jumps to 1000 frames! Damn all that film I had to
> hump
> around for so many years.
>
>
>
> Just thought you might find this an interesting point in favour of
> digital
> for those who did shoot thousands of rolls a year. And still do.
>
>
>
> However, what I did find upon inserting the card directly to computer
> card
> reader...... "IT WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD!" ?A scary moment as there were some
> cool
> images I really wanted. ?Ran the situation by my local computer-photo
> Guru,
> he was sure it wasn't the card as we could see the images on the camera
> screen. But that it might be the computer card reader wasn't fast enough
> or
> words to that effect, to down load the information. He suggested an
> external
> card reader of high capacity? We popped in a new HAMA card reader and
> "blink!" There were all the images fly into LR2 on screen. You could
> hear
> the breathing again.
>
>
>
> Just thought it a moment to pass along in case you hadn't played with an
> 8
> gig card. Heck even shooting a football game where quite often ten or 20
> 36
> exp. rolls would be exposed during the afternoon. Now one card and shoot
> two
> games without changing! :-) And no bulging photo vest pockets with film!
> Or
> changing rolls as the key point of the game is missed! :-(
>
> ted
>
>
>
>
>
>
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