[Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

I use 16 gig cards,,,,I carry six of them on trips, and don't delete
them till I return and back them up at home,
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Interesting finding when inserting an 8 Gig card. :-) For those who have 
> not
> done so yet. :-) It's cool! :-)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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! :-(
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> ted
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