Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Luggers, I was in Ubud Bali a month ago to celebrate my 59th with some friends of similar vintage. I took along my Hexar RF with Leica glass and also a Canon G1 with three compact flash cards - a 64mb and two 128mbs. The G1 focus / shutter lag ruled it out for street photos (and just about everything else except static shots) but it was fun to take pictures of stationary people and then show them the result and then take a real picture with the Hexar fitted (mostly) with the Tri Elmar. When I got back to Hong Kong I tried to download the Bali images from the full 64mb card (about thirty pictures at maximum JPEG resolution) and I got an image corrupted message when I tried to read the card to my Mac G4 through the Imation compact flash reader. This happened, despite the fact that I had reviewed (and deleted) and reshot the images without trouble on the G1. I then managed to down load one of the 128Mb cards (with about 70 images) and assumed that the 64mb Sandisk card was just kaput. This weekend, however, I tried to download some new images from the 128mb card that I had previously emptied and got the same image corrupt message - despite the fact that I had just reviewed the 30 or so images while the card was in the camera. I reformatted the card and reinstalled the Imation Reader program and it would read new test pictures but, of course, the previous images are gone forever. Also, out of curiosity I reformatted the 64mb card and now it also will record fresh images and download through the reader. I have no idea what happened, but my faith in being able to bring home digital images and save them is certainly shaken. I have never had such trouble with good old fashioned film, despite the rare x-ray problem and the few times developing gets messed up. At least then I have some idea what went wrong! Howard Cummer Hong Kong - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html