Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Dangers of Digital (OT)
From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 12:00:54 -0400 (EDT)

if i were the protagonist of this story, they would have taken me 
away because they'd see me in the middle of the street with a
sledgehammer smashing over and over a tiny pile of rapidly
multiplying plastic and glass bits.

- -rei


> From: Cummer <cummer@netvigator.com>
> 
> 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


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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey

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