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Subject: [Leica] Lessons Learned
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:39:01 +0100
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Tina,

Welcome back! Interesting experience I've never suspect, thank you, I've 
learned too with the comments you have received.

I can't wait to see your pictures

Saludos  
Lluis 

El 22/03/2013, a las 14:34, Tina Manley escribi?:

> PESO:
> 
> Well, we are back from our whilrwind trip to Gibraltar, Morocco, and Spain
> and I'm downloading the photos now.  The biggest lesson I learned this trip
> was to never again travel without a computer!  I thought for such a short
> trip, I would just take lots of SD cards and my Kindle to check e-mail.
> Big mistake!  I had bought 4 32GB Transcend cards and they did NOT work.
> They would work fine for awhile and then get hung up on data transfer for
> hours.  I would have to take the battery and card out to get them to work
> again and then half the time it would tell me I had no photos on the card
> when I actually had several hundred.  I quit using those and only had my
> old, smaller cards to use.  The 32GB cards are going back to Amazon.  I
> have no idea what I lost but I think the wedding photos are safe on 4GB
> cards.  I missed having the opportunity to download photos and review them
> at night before taking more the next day.  My little Acer netbook would not
> have been much larger than the Kindle and I could have used it for
> downloading photos, too.  I also missed the security of making two copies
> to keep in different locations which I usually do on trips.
> 
> The M9 and MM worked fine even in torrential downpours.  I used the 35/1.4,
> 24/2.8, and 90/2.0 far more than any of the other lenses I took.  I think I
> could have done fine with just those three.
> 
> I also have to catch up on all of the e-mails which were too hard to read
> and answer using the Kindle!  I did like it for reading and guidebooks,
> though.
> 
> Photos will follow someday!
> 
> Tina
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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