Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley wrote: >>>> I know immediately if I have the photos. <<<< This was a biggie for me last month. I could check the day's photos each evening and re-shoot the next day if needed, or verify that I had the photos I wanted and move on to the next subject. The E6 film I mailed to the lab a few weeks ago still hasn't arrived here. Digital is also much easier to back up. While in Hawaii my external hard drive crashed (literally: a hormonal kitten sent it flying from table to floor, twice) and I lost my primary storage. Fortunately I had made backups of everything each evening and I lost nothing. Film in the mail has been lost or crushed, processing labs have wrecked stuff. To make film backups as securely as digital backups you'd need to make identical exposures on more than one roll of film, processed seperately, and if processed by a lab, transported seperately to separate labs. A bit impractical. Also because I had film in my camera bag, I had a hand inspection at the Honolulu airport agricultural check station, where my apple (in-flight snack) was confiscated. Grrr. SWMBO's bag went through the scanning machine and her apple was not detected. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange