About deleting both JPG+DNG on the camera

[Virtus]

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6 hours ago, Photoworks said:

I lens a long time ago not to have any front lens caps. Get a filter or and lens shade and get shooting. all my M lenses are like that!

However, mistakes are made. Exceptions exist. The point is not what to use instead of a lens cap, or if to use a cap at all. The point is that as long as the cap option exists people will make mistakes and blank shots (even scary hangs with certain ISO and exposure time configurations) will exist. So, my point was that in cases like that (albeit exceptional) someone will tend to delete on camera (like I did) and be mislead to believe that both the JPG and the DNG are removed. Something that is not actually happening. And this behavior is not documented. 

Edited March 29, 2023 by Virtus

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[Kwesi]

On 3/29/2023 at 2:58 AM, elmars said:

I think the camera does exactly what it should. When you are in picture playback mode, it always shows the picture from a particular memory: IN or SD. Since you are deleting from the picture playback mode, it would be wrong to also delete pictures in the memory other than the one being displayed from.

I use IN=SD. The internal memory is my backup. If I accidentally delete too much from the SD card, I still have the backup.

 

 

On 3/29/2023 at 3:26 AM, Virtus said:

Elmars, I'm afraid you misunderstand the camera. When I configure storage as JPG on IN and DNG on SD, the IN is NOT the backup. It's just creating the image in two files. This is NOT the backup process. Configuring the IN as backup is another kettle of fish. You misunderstand the system.

I’m afraid both @elmars and Leica are correct here. I only shoot DNG and use the internal memory as a backup to guard against the event that my sd card is corrupted in the field. Quite frankly the last thing I want is to accidentally lose my back up image because I deleted my primary image for whatever reason.

[Virtus]

52 minutes ago, Kwesi said:

 

I’m afraid both @elmars and Leica are correct here. I only shoot DNG and use the internal memory as a backup to guard against the event that my sd card is corrupted in the field. Quite frankly the last thing I want is to accidentally lose my back up image because I deleted my primary image for whatever reason.

Hi,

I really don't understand what is the connection between your fears and the lack of correct understanding of what backup means in this context of the Leica M11 system. 

[lct]

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Edited March 31, 2023 by lct

[lct]

On 3/29/2023 at 8:58 AM, elmars said:

When you are in picture playback mode, it always shows the picture from a particular memory: IN or SD. Since you are deleting from the picture playback mode, it would be wrong to also delete pictures in the memory other than the one being displayed from.

+1

[J S H]

15 hours ago, Kwesi said:

I’m afraid both @elmars and Leica are correct here. I only shoot DNG and use the internal memory as a backup to guard against the event that my sd card is corrupted in the field. Quite frankly the last thing I want is to accidentally lose my back up image because I deleted my primary image for whatever reason.

Exactly. The camera is working as it should. You can only delete images on the memory that you are viewing. Doesn't matter how the camera is configured, whether it was mirrored, DNG to IN, JPG to SD, whatever. If you want to delete images from either memory storage location, you have to switch to the appropriate one. You can however easily format either location from one screen and that's the easiest way to manage things. Deleting an individual image is somewhat pointless, unless you are completely out of space (an unlikely scenario).