[Leica] film & the early disasters of digital. :-(

[Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>]

Hi Guys and Gals,
Why is it that I doubt very much I'll ever become a truly all digital
photographer?

Well maybe the photographer part I might make, but it's the "after what you
do with it" when you think you've downloaded the pictures to your computer
where it all falls apart "VERY BIG TIME" that's the killer. :-(

Today I ventured out for the afternoon fighting what felt like a force 10
wind, I believe 10 is a good one, certainly felt like it as I leaned hard on
posts to stabilize myself while shooting along the water front to keep from
being blown away.

Damn I had what looked like really neat stuff shot R8 & slide film with the
21-35 lens and 80-200 with most done on the digi cam. Some nice imagery for
comparison after the film was processed tomorrow I thought .

However! I bet you already know what's coming, right? :-(

Memory card is plugged into card reader, stuff comes up on screen, some
place else it says download card. I click that and little lights flash, then
it's supposed to be over. Right? Well it looked like it was over.

Then of course it's clean the memory card for the next go around. Right?
Yeah well I saw them all there on the screen so that meant they were down
loaded. Right?

Yeah well not exactly..... :-( That was the images still in the memory card
and not yet transferred! OOPS! Damn~!  Well I saw stuff I knew was already
in the machine so why wouldn't this mean everything else that showed of
today's shooting wasn't  in the machine?

But what I didn't know was the old stuff hadn't been deleted earlier so the
memory card is still loaded with the old along with today's shoot.  Now you
really know what's coming. Right!  So I hit select all delete and every
frame of near 100 images from this afternoon are now some where on the way
to the dark side of the moon! ;-(

Damn digital, some how I think I'll just do my same old thing and shoot
film, at least I usually get the stuff back from the colour lab.  :-(

So today is written off as one of those "empty camera shoots," you know the
kind when you burned so many beautiful images into the pressure plate you'd
be a millionaire if you could only recover them.;-)

Oh well what the hell, tomorrow's another day along the learning curve. But
dang I know there was some neat stuff as I'd looked a couple of times at
that dinky little camera screen! Dang!
ted


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