Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html