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The only disaster is, when you loose your photos being on an assignment. 

 

Please tell your disasters so that we can learn and understand how much happend: Did you lose all your pictures once, due to your.own fault or sd-card failure  or writing failure of the camera? Personally, I never did. Lost single shots , 1 every 1000-2000,  but never lost the whole card volume. 

I like to know because Leica M  only has one slot, and a lot of cameras have two, maybe because they want to prevent this from happening. But does it really happen a lot? 

 

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5 hours ago, TomB_tx said:

The only such loss I’ve had was when I forgot to put the SD card back in the camera before a hike.

TRIVIA: An early version of the M9 firmware allowed us to capture images to the buffer with no card, then insert the card to store them.

 

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I carry backup card(s), 1 or 2 extra batteries, and a spare travel charger.  Don't abuse the buffer.  If the red light is blinking I don't take a picture or turn the camera off.  Following these simple rules I've never had a problem, on any digital camera Leica or other.  

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Very early in my M9 period (12/2009) I had an experience where, with substantial "deleting" of dud images to clear card space on a long sea trip (no way to buy more cards), I got 5-6 "keepers" that were sliced and diced with other pictures on the same card. A strip of green channel from image "A" inserted into image "B" and so on.

Which is why I now am parsimonious in using the "Delete" function in-camera, and never "Delete All" - easy enough to delete duds in the computer afterwards, and Format the card for re-use.

But I've never lost an entire card as such.

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As I get older I regularly meet with disaster by not getting out the front door in time to catch the best light, my SD card never had a chance to fail. I have lost rolls of film however, and one time three double dark slides which baffles me as the sudden weight loss should have been a clue they'd gone AWOL.

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vor 10 Stunden schrieb mr_big:

I lost all pictures of Yankee Stadium on my trip to NY due to a corrupted SD card. Leica, PLEASE build an M with TWO SD card slots.

Was it a new card. Can you tell us,  what kind it was?

 

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I've lost a number of film rolls to accidents (opening the camera before rewinding, overheating in the sun, scratches from damaged cassette, treating colour as B&W, forgetting what ISO it was, incorrectly reloading a half used roll, developing blunders, and, in the early days with a box camera, double exposures).

I have never lost a cardful of images. I have never had a dud SD card. I realise there's always a first time for both, but the digital era is far more reliable.

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vor 16 Stunden schrieb mr_big:

I lost all pictures of Yankee Stadium on my trip to NY due to a corrupted SD card. Leica, PLEASE build an M with TWO SD card slots.

Was it a new card. Can you tell us,  what kind it was?

 

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5 hours ago, Paulus said:

Was it a new card. Can you tell us,  what kind it was?

 

It was a 32gb Lexar but I forget what version... it was about two years old at the time.

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On ‎10‎/‎21‎/‎2018 at 9:05 PM, Gobert said:

Since, I’m in the digital area, say for 10 years or so, I’ve never had a corrupted card.

 

same here....not a single card issue in over a decade of using digital  (not counting 'losing' an SD card many years ago when I had my M8 + 15mm Zeiss ripped off my shoulder by a bunch of lowlife muggers!)

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On 10/21/2018 at 6:05 AM, Gobert said:

Since, I’m in the digital area, say for 10 years or so, I’ve never had a corrupted card.

5 hours ago, Jono said:

same here....not a single card issue ≈in over a decade of using digital  (not counting 'losing' an SD card many years ago when I had my M8 + 15mm Zeiss ripped off my shoulder by a bunch of lowlife muggers!)

For those who have never experienced a corrupted SD card, you won’t feel so smug if/when it happens to you. Yeah, I never had a problem either until...

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Am 19.10.2018 um 22:45 schrieb Astropap:

Well, it didn't matter because I was just trying out the camera but I left lens cap on.  I couldn't figure out why I was only seeing black when trying to scroll through the shots I had taken.  🤔

I´m loosing all the lens caps so I never will come in this situation.😉

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On 10/19/2018 at 11:36 AM, Paulus said:

Please tell your disasters so that we can learn and understand how much happend...

I took a previously formatted SanDisk 8GB SDHC card to test the store's M10 demo body with my three M-mount lenses.

Since the M10 had no problem with my old 8GB memory card, I purchased the M10 demo body. I also purchased three brand new SanDisk 32GB SDHC cards. However, I was unable to capture any images on the new cards.

It was not until I formatted one of the new 32GB cards in the M10 that I was eventually able to capture one image on one card.

I then tried a brand new Lexar 16 GB SDHC card that I also formatted in the M10 demo body. Thus far, the Lexar card seems to be working properly.

Leica M10 Memory Card Issue by Narsuitus, on Flickr

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