Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html