You could always buy the new Bimbo a digital P&S and take her along, Especially for those long winter nights. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:21 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > His wife divorced him a couple of years ago, so that wasn't a particularly > attractive option. > > On 1/31/2013 3:12 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> On those big trips, it's foolish not to have a test of all your >> equipment and components. >> He might have found the problem card a bit sooner. >> And bring the wife along with a P&S digital, as a failsafe. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:31 PM, P. J. Alling >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Losing cards is a problem but a card can also becoming non functional, >>> I've >>> had a few physically fall apart making them unusable, but I was able to >>> recover the data from them. However as a cautionary tail a friend of >>> mine, >>> went on a once in a lifetime vacation to southern Africa, intending to do >>> a >>> lot of wildlife shooting. He brought enough SD cards to take several, >>> thousand photos, without having to download them to a computer, he >>> doesn't >>> have a laptop, (shooting JPEG, he doesn't shoot raw), He filled up four >>> cards. When he returned I got a call for help, one of his cards couldn't >>> be >>> read by his computer. I suggested a number of different recovery >>> programs. >>> The third one finally was able to recover data from the card. All of the >>> downloaded files were corrupted. I took a look at it and nothing I tried >>> was >>> able to do better. If you have everything on one card and that card goes >>> south, you loose everything. >>> >>> On 1/31/2013 9:57 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Bruce and PDMLer Friends, That is the question: why buy 16 GB >>>>>> Cards when you can't fill it up in a shoot?? >>>>> >>>>> 1) I don't like to delete files from cards during a vacation, even >>>>> after I've copied them to the laptop. So larger cards mean fewer cards >>>>> to store, switching less often, etc. Since I back up to the laptop >>>>> daily, I'm not too worried about losing more than a day's photos at >>>>> once, which is one of the most common objections to large cards. >>>>> ... >>>> >>>> Ditto. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> People have mentioned a concern with "losing" cards as a reason to go >>>> with >>>> smaller cards, thereby minimizing the quantity of images that might be >>>> lost. >>>> I have two thoughts about that. First, if it is a 32GB or 64GB card in >>>> the >>>> camera and I almost certainly won't fill the card in one day of >>>> vacation/travel shooting, then the card stays in the camera all day. The >>>> only way to lose it is to lose the camera. If it is a smaller capacity >>>> card >>>> that I need to swap out during the day, then there would be more chance >>>> of >>>> physically losing or damaging the card during or after a card swap. The >>>> second kind of "lose" of images could be from a failure of the SD card >>>> itself. Again, I assume that less handling of the cards will reduce the >>>> chance of causing damage to the cards, and again the strategy of "big >>>> card, >>>> don't swap" makes sense to me. >>>> >>>> stan >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Buy a Leica to get the full “Leica Experience”, (a quick reduction of >>> funds >>> in the bank account). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Buy a Leica to get the full “Leica Experience”, (a quick reduction of funds > in the bank account). > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
