Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Check the internet for retrieval software before you do anything else. Often times, all is_not_lost. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] film & the early disasters of digital. :-( >Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 6:44 PM > > 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 > > > -- > 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