Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Flying with fiim
From: John Brownlow <lists@johnbrownlow.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:28:52 -0400

On 4/15/02 12:11 AM, "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Well, hum.  The problem I have with digital is one glitch, and you can lose
> everything...  If there was a way to do some kind of in-camera back-up, or,
> I guess, you could just bring a notebook computer with you and do a back-up
> that way...  At least with film, if you screw up one roll, or a few
> pictures...all is not lost.  It takes something really stupid to lose it all
> with film.

well it's pretty hard with digital too. I have two 256 Mb cards. That's the
equivalent of about 10 rolls of film, give or take. As soon as one is full,
I swap them. When the second is full I also have a 32 Mb card that came with
the camera to capture the inevitable last shot you don't have room for. Then
they are dumped ASAP to my laptop. I never leave images on there more than
24 hours. 

Keith McManus told me about a digital wallet that he uses. I have had some
problems with files being corrupted due to shooting too fast with the
digicam (bloody Nikon firmware). However the software from photorescue.com
managed to rescue it all.

I also as an experiment reformatted a card (having downloaded the pix) and
then tried to rescue the pictures. I was able to rescue the images with no
problem. So it may be harder than you think to lose all the images.
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John Brownlow

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com

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