Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted From a philosophical point of view you could take the path of Minor White who was a big advocate of shooting without film to prepare you for the 'moment'. From the 2003 view you could take the approach that you were screwed by technology. I prefer to make my own preparations and make my own mistakes and not let electrons do it for me! I can feel your pain... Leo On Oct 28, 2003, at 8:44 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > 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