Phew - much relieved. I'm saving up for a new DLSR (never owned on yet).
I've used film for 30 years which has served me well. I just recently sold
six film SLRs to take the sting out of buying a DLSR. And you had me worried
that I may have made a HUG msitake there. I'm keeping my OM2 and OM40. I'm
not totally abandoning film - but I require a digital SLR for some business
projects I have in mind. My decsision in a couple of weeks or so will be
whiuch make of DSLR. My only experience with DSLR to date is doing a shoot
with a friend's SLR like Fuji S3100 - which takes excellent pictures but I
wouldn't be happy with one. But maybe a Fuji S1, S2 or S3 pro? Either that
or a Nikon D70s or Canon 350D or something of that order. It's a while (a
few years) since I last bought an SLR from a shop - but I have noticed that
shops are less willing to let potential buyers try out SLRs these days. My
local Jessops store wouldn't let me play with a DLSR. The local Curry's
store let me play with a D50 for about five minutes - enough to convince me
that, unlike the Fuji S3100, a DSLR can look a 'real' SLR through the
viewfinder! What would you guys recommend/suggest as the best first
pro-class DSLR to somebody moving from film to digital - and has 30 years
experience in film SLR photography.
Allan
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number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
about it).
Disrupting the unnatural balance that you, as a conscious human being and a
confused mass of energy, have created.
-Disturb the mind -
>From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: A not so favorable report on PC Inspector Smart Recovery
>Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:55:17 -0500
>
>I'm afraid I spoke prematurely and incorrectly based on a single
>corrupted file instance. I assumed it was corrupted by my shutting the
>power switch off but I've just demonstrated to myself several times that
>I can't cause file corruption by turning off the power switch or by
>opening the CF door for that matter.
>
>The power switch is a soft switch just as I would have expected it to
>be. You can turn it off but, as long as data is being written from the
>buffer, the red I/O light is on and the camera does not power down.
>
>The corrupted file I had yesterday was, as near as I can tell, the file
>that would have been being written when I turned off the power.
>However, try as I may, I can not replicate that problem. Chalk it up to
>cosmic rays I guess.
>
>Opening the CF door does exhibit different behavior from the power
>switch but I think it's clearly by design. Opening the CF door
>activates another soft switch that stops writing as soon as the current
>file or file set (raw + JPEG) is written. It definitely does not stop
>writing immediately and I could not force a corrupted file. However,
>anything beyond one file or file set is discarded.
>
>I say I can see that this is by design since I think the logic is thus:
> "Uh, oh! You opened the damned door and I'm still writing. If you
>hit that eject button it's possible that I might be writing the FAT at
>that time and if the FAT gets trashed you're in the hurts... and there's
>nothing I can do now to stop you if you suddenly yank out the CF card.
>However, I'm fast enough that I can probably compete the current file
>write before you can get your thumb on that eject button. I'm gonna
>finish this one but then I'm gonna have to shut down so you don't
>completely screw yourself."
>
>Or something like that...
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>AG Schnozz wrote:
>
> > Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> >
> >>Well, I didn't have to wait long. While out shooting today
> >>with the camera set for both raw and large JPEG's I shut the
> >>camera off prematurely. I thought the OFF switch was a soft
> >>switch and that the camera wouldn't power down until any I/O
> >>activity was completed. Apparently not so for the 5D.
> >
> >
> > Does anybody else find this to be rather disturbing? Was this
> > just a one-time quirk of the 5D or is this a normal
> > design-flaw--you know, like prematuraly opening the CF door
> > while it is still writing?
> >
> > I shudder to think that it would be this easy to corrupt a CF
> > card. No Canon-bashing, just highly concerned as I prematuraly
> > shut-off my cameras or open the CF doors while file writing
> > maybe once a month.
> >
> > AG
> >
> >
> >
> >
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