Didn't the pz-1p have a titanium vertical shutter? I think it would be pretty hard to get to 1/8000 with a cloth shutter....
Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, Stan Halpin wrote: >>> On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, Stan Halpin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> How do you back up your day's shooting? >>> >>> Download to my laptop (using LR) with a backup to an external hard >drive. >>> >>> Depending on card capacity, how many cards I have with me, what is >up >>> the next day, etc. I may just put the card back in the camera or I >may >>> store it and put in a fresh card. At the end of a trip I would like >>> to have three copies of everything: laptop hard drive, external hard >>> drive, and originals on the card(s). If I am running short of space >on >>> the card(s) I'll go ahead and reformat one or two but I try to avoid >>> that just to be safe. >> >> Okay, so you do pop the card out to download -- that wasn't clear >from >> your previous post. >> -- > >Yes, but only in the peace and quiet of a hotel room, etc. >Back in the BD era (before digital), I was in a dugout canoe being >taken across a small river in Panama on my way to visit a native >village, a village noted for their artisans. Reallylooking forward to >some shots of the locals at work and of thier finished product. Spotted >a couple of Ibis along the shore. Snapped the last frame on the roll in >the camera (PZ-1p), quickly rewound, reloaded. In my haste, a certain >amount of rocking back and forth of the dugout ensued. No, I didn't >drop either film or camera in the river. Instead I poked my thumb >through the cloth shutter curtain. The end of photography for that >trip. Lesson 1: it is worth the bother to carry a 2nd camera. Lesson 2: >don't try to change film in a dugout canoe while in the middle of a >river. I have since extrapolated #2 to a more general lesson: don't >change recording media in the heat of the moment; wait for a quiet time >and place, thus avoiding potential disasters that might befall media >and/or camera. > >stan -- 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.
