[Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?

[mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)]

No problems in keeping your film cold there...

16 gig cards would have been great, but you'd probably be carrying  
hundreds of batteries instead. I don't think the M8 does that well in  
cold weather. Even the D3's spectacular battery life is cut to about  
30% in very cold conditions.

On Jun 6, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Hi Crew,
>
> Given the many messages wondering how one would fill an 8 gig card  
> even in
> weeks of shooting?
>
>
>
> To be fair I should offer the why I wished digital and 8 gig cards  
> or bigger
> were available 45-50 year ago.
>
> When assigned to shoot in the High Arctic of Canada during the  
> yearly ship
> convoy re-supply of Arctic weather and radar stations it was  
> necessary to
> take all your film, several times a1000 36 exp rolls. Your days  
> were endless
> because in many cases the work was 24 hours a day of landing craft,
> helicopters and trucks on land. The sun never set! It was easy to  
> keep going
> because the sun was shining, so you never related to going to bed.  
> Actually
> I had occasions to shoot for three days straight with only sit  
> downs to eat,
> that was it. However when you did crash, trust me you really  
> crashed in very
> deep sleep for 24 hours or more.
>
>
>
> But it is situations like this where 8 - 16 - 32 whatever size  
> biggie cards
> would've been an advantage instead of pockets and pockets of film.
>
> So some of you lads who've never worked on indepth assignments of this
> nature, I can understand your wondering how long it would take to  
> fill even
> an 8 gig? But when you're in the middle of a massive unloading of  
> ships,
> hopping into a helicopter out to the ships to capture the  
> activities there,
> flight back to shore, next trip on a landing craft. You are burning  
> images
> like a hail storm there's so much going on all around you and it never
> stops!
>
>
>
> And repeat this scenario several times during a 6 week trip  
> crashing and
> breaking through the ice of the Arctic Ocean to various bases. And  
> finish
> one trip with a flight to the North Pole. Trust me that's one place  
> you do
> not want to run out of film! ;-)
>
>
>
> Dr. ted
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