Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By risked I meant "no back up if it shut down". I have had to send the DMR to Germany twice. Once because the connection failed to the SD card. Camera was useless and once to repair a faulty LED in the display: not a fatal issue, but annoying, so only carrying one camera to far away places in my opinion is bit of a risk ifff you want to come home with images. My second back up for the files failed in Equador. If it had been my only one I'd have lost all my image that way as well. Digital is unforgiving. Water in the electronics and down she goes. We saw 2 cameras die in Antarctica through the damp. I've not been anywhere except Egypt where the dust was really bad: can be bad with wind in Aussie desert of course. My Minolta seized up in Europe when film end touched the shutter. Turned itself off and never came on again till fixed in Australia. Carried all though Europe for 4 months as dead weight. So I wanted a second camera body: its not a big deal. I saw it as a risk. You clearly don't: fine. Enough. Alastair > Alastair Firkin wrote: > >>Well, here are a few of my attempts at shooting flying critters with the >>DMR. Not all failures, though you might guess I would have burnt a LOT of >>film if I had been trying in the old days. The last Albatross was my 25th >>attempt I think. >> >>I start with what makes the DMR wonderful: colour palette, and there are >> 5 >>'birds' to follow: >> >>http://tinyurl.com/3ofz7oz > > How is this related to > >> "I had already risked the DMR >>in the Arctic and Antarctic and had 'survived', but I knew that the dusty >>conditions of our next venture to Africa would sorely test the Leica: >> this >>was confirmed by Jay and Howard, who simply told me to "forget it". > > What is risky about using the DMR in Antarctica or in dusty conditions in > Africa? > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >