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

["lea" <lea@whinydogpress.com>]

Ted,

My sympathies on your multiple losses.

I work in PC and do TONS of digital...like over 1000 images since last
Friday. I mean TONS. And these are work images (well, let's be honest, a
few play images thrown in for good measure).

I have a USB card reader into which I can put either a compact flash
card or a smart media card. When I insert the card the computer brings
up that drive with the images listed in folders. I open each folder,
select those images, switch to my Photoshop screen then go to File>Open.
Once my dialog box is open I move to a hard drive (I have 4 on my
machine), create a directory for that particular shoot, then copy and
paste those images right in to the open screen. Then I go back and get
more and I keep doing this until all the files are transfered. Then I
right quick burn a cd of that directory. THEN and only then do I delete
my media card. And I never delete one without checking what images are
on it.

I know 20/20 hindsight is a beautiful thing and this doesn't do much to
help with your loss today but maybe it will make life a bit smoother for
you down the road.

And again, I feel your pain.
Lea

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:44 PM
Subject: [Leica] film & the early disasters of digital. :-(


> 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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