[Leica] Anybody with an actual M9 have experience with large fast cards?

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

Hi Mehrdad,

I shot a pile of film (~120 rolls of 135) on this most recent trip
too.  While away I just guard it well.  I'm good at keeping track of
physical objects, so I'm less concerned about losing rolls of film
than having some e-disaster and having files vanish into the aether.
Rolls of film in ziplok bags are also a much less attractive target
for a thief than a laptop.

The hardest thing with film, for me, was coming up with a system to
keep track of the rolls as I develop them myself after I get home.
The system I use is to write some information on the cassettes when I
finish shooting them (e.g. Cape Town markets 1-8-9), then use those
numbers printed on sticky water proof material that commercial labs
use when I develop them.  That way I have a roll of film which
corresponds to notes about the date and place where I shot it, which I
then write on the printfile, along with a number, which has the year
followed by the number roll of that year.

Digital, overall, makes archiving easier and the likelihood of loss
lower.  When some manufacturer makes a digital camera that just
records luminance, I'll probably use less film when travelling.

Marty


On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, mehrdad <msadat at gmail.com> wrote:
> marty that is a lot of work, what did u do in the film days??
>
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> When travelling I back up our cards each day onto my laptop and make
>> dual copies on DVDs. ?One DVD goes in my luggage, one went in my
>> wife's (she shot a lot more digital than I did). ?About once a week, I
>> make a third set and mail them home. ?On our most recent trip
>> everything survived and all the posted copies turned up, so I have
>> more copies of our pictures than I know what to do with, but that's
>> better than none.
>>
>> Marty
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
>> gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The best is to use whatever cards you have and back up on these at the
>> end
>> > of the day:
>> >
>> > http://www.hypershop.com/HyperDrive-COLORSPACE-UDMA-s/64.htm
>> >
>> > Just keep one casing & 2 hard drives if you want to cut cost - I have 
>> > the
>> > old Colorspace, but this one is supposed to be very fast.
>> > Cheers
>> > Jayanand
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I had no problems with 32 GB Class 6 cards from Sandisk, Kingston and
>> >> Transcend in the M9 I was leant for review.
>> >>
>> >> Marty
>> >>
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