[Leica] how i exposed a roll of film to direct sunlight and got my photos back -- lesson learned

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

so, the other day, i was shooting with the Leica d200, I put the CF card in 
Ye Olde Macintosh and looked at the pix. (Oooh, lovely.) Then I closed the 
laptop and put it to sleep. The next morning I wanted to grab some photos 
and rather than booting up the mac and ejecting the card, I just yanked the 
CF card out. I went out and shot photos, looked at them on the camera screen 
(ooh, beautiful), then when I got home, stuffed the card back in the card 
reader, turned on my mac and ..... NO NEW PHOTOS. the computer -- and this 
is why it tells you do do this when you're on a mac -- rewrote the new FAT 
with the old one.
 
I was able to retrieve them with some effort using Get Data Back for FAT, 
but I wanted to let people know, when your macintosh says "do not remove 
this device without ejecting it" -- it's not kidding.
 
kc