[Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

I once found a card in the gutter of a busy street. It had been run over
numerous times. It was bent, wet and cracked. I never dreamed it would
be readable, but I gave it a try and discovered 256K worth of someone's
puppy shots. 

Cards are tougher than I ever expected. OTOH, if it was something
important to me it probably would have been fried the moment it touched
the ground. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dante A Stella [mailto:dstella1 at ameritech.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:08 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?

Great... Now you can have 720 pictures stolen, drenched, or dropped down
a ravine along with the camera.  2gb cards manage risk a little better.

Dante 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:48 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?

Interesting finding when inserting an 8 Gig card. :-) For those who have
not
done so yet. :-) It's cool! :-)

 

If only 50 years ago digital and 8 Gig cards were available I wouldn't
have
had to pack 500 to 1000 rolls of film on many of my assignments, simply
because where I was shooting there weren't any local photo or
convenience
stores. So what you needed or thought you might need, you packed the lot
if
there was the tiniest of question "I wonder if?". So you took everything
in
the way of equipment and film.

 

So to my pleasant surprise I bought an 8 Gig card inserted it into the
M8
while set on RAW.  Surprise.. looks like I can shoot 720 frames without
changing card.. That's over 20 rolls of 36 exp. Tri-X.  Now if one were
to
shoot in JPEG that jumps to 1000 frames! Damn all that film I had to
hump
around for so many years. 

 

Just thought you might find this an interesting point in favour of
digital
for those who did shoot thousands of rolls a year. And still do.

 

However, what I did find upon inserting the card directly to computer
card
reader...... "IT WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD!"  A scary moment as there were some
cool
images I really wanted.  Ran the situation by my local computer-photo
Guru,
he was sure it wasn't the card as we could see the images on the camera
screen. But that it might be the computer card reader wasn't fast enough
or
words to that effect, to down load the information. He suggested an
external
card reader of high capacity? We popped in a new HAMA card reader and
"blink!" There were all the images fly into LR2 on screen. You could
hear
the breathing again.

 

Just thought it a moment to pass along in case you hadn't played with an
8
gig card. Heck even shooting a football game where quite often ten or 20
36
exp. rolls would be exposed during the afternoon. Now one card and shoot
two
games without changing! :-) And no bulging photo vest pockets with film!
Or
changing rolls as the key point of the game is missed! :-(

ted

 

 


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