[Leica] Back up back up back up

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Dear John,
agree digital files can get lost. 

But:

- One can scratch a whole film roll when loading it into a dusty bulk 
cassette.
- One can shoot a whole roll but it was not transported.
- One can ruin a whole roll when opening the camera before rewinding.
- One can scratch a whole roll when rolling it in the jobo spool.
- One can pour the fixer in the 5-roll-jobo-tank first instead of the 
developer.
- One can ruin 5 rolls because the developer was too much shaked and 
produced a foam effect.
- One can ruin 5 rolls because of muddling up the developer timings.
- One can ruin 5 rolls because the fixer was wrongly diluted.
- One can ruin a neg stripe with fingerprints when scanning it.
- One can loose a box full of negs during a relocation.

All happened to me :-) no joke.
One reason more to keep pushin that button (if film or digi).
Didier

PS: Digital files, unlike neg rolls, can be backed up quite easy.






>Dear All,
>Why all this concern about digital files.  We are all Leica users here
>and negatives are very archival!  Stay away from that M8 too!
>John