Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What a pain...the worst is that you feel you can't trust your equipment and that's never good. Sounds like you're downloading direct from the camera and not thru a film reader. Not sure if that's the glitch but you never know with some of this stuff. If you take your camera to a shop for download, be sure to take your usb cable as well...take as much of YOUR stuff as you can as that may help you identify where the problem is. Heck, you may have a short in your usb cable even. Another thought, what are you downloading to? I used to have problems bringing a full card of images (using the 128mg cards...my smaller 32 and 64mg cards are fine) right into Photoshop but if I let them download into their own display folder as they like, I then copy and paste them into their own directory in Windows and from there I'm fine. It's a pain but it prevents me from having to reboot :o) Oh the quirks of these computers. Good luck. I'd be interested to hear what you find out. Lea - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Attinasi" <marc@attinasi.org> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Digilux angst > Thanks, Lea! I will try bringing the card into a local shop and see > what they can do - I have not formatted it yet. I have used the card, > and two other identical 128MB cards for some time now, so I think I may > have a different problem than what you experienced. It is frustrating, > because most of the time it works perfectly, but then total failure, > well, it makes me nervous to use the camera for critical shooting... > > On a similar note, when I took a dozen images yesterday, stored as > TIFF, the Digilux 1 kept 'crashing' when I downloaded them through the > USB cable. I had to remove the batteries to free it up! The images > could be retrieved from a card reader, but not through the camera > itself. Anyone had similar issues? Is there a firmware update for the > Digilux, I wonder? > > Thanks again, > - marc > > On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 04:56 AM, lea wrote: > > > WAIT STOP WHOA! > > > > I had this trouble with a new 128mg card (actually 4 of them) before I > > learned that my drivers for my card reader were not compatible with the > > higher mg card. Downloading the new drivers saved me. You might see if > > there > > is something newer than the drivers you are using. > > > > Also, before I had this problem fixed and I couldn't get my images to > > download, I took the card to a local photo shop where they were able to > > download them and burn a cd on their equipment. That way, at least, the > > images weren't lost forever...and it also let me know the disks weren't > > bad...it was just a glitch in MY system. > > > > I'm sure disks can go bad but I have 2 disks I bought when I bought my > > camera 2.5 years ago and they still work as well as the day I bought > > them. > > If you don't know, keep all computer disks from any magnetic fields as > > that > > will strip the data right off them. > > > > Good luck on what is no doubt a very, very frustrating problem. > > Lea > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marc Attinasi" <marc@attinasi.org> > > To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 12:40 AM > > Subject: [Leica] Digilux angst > > > > > >> I love the digilux 1 - it is a great fashion statement, and can take a > >> good picture once in a while (assuming I don't get in its way). But > >> twice now I have had a problem that I cannot tolerate, and I do not > >> know if it is me, my camera, the medium, or just bad luck. > >> > >> I took about 50 shots the other day, came home and prepared to > >> download > >> the pics to my PowerBook. Nothing happened. I unplugged the USB cable, > >> put the camera in 'play' mode and a message appears indicating that > >> the > >> memory card has to be formatted. I tried half a dozen incantations and > >> spells, nothing good came of it. I lost the pics. The Secure Digital > >> card is a 128MB SanDisk, nearly new, and has been working fine for a > >> couple of months. Why should it go bad? This is the second time this > >> has happened, on the second card. Do these expensive little cards go > >> bad? I find that hard to believe. Do they have to be formatted > >> periodically? This is worse than opening the back of the camera before > >> rewinding the film! UGGHH! > >> > >> Advice, ideas or general commiseration appreciated, > >> - marc > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe, see > >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >> > >> > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html