I feel that I really have problem with keep my shoots level. So changes needs to be make in custom settings function. I also took change the my menu priority so that the Auto ISO on/off fuction is now top of the list.
I have noticed that my hard drive in my digimate have only 40G or so free space left. For the sake of my up coming Inner Mongolia trip, I better get a newer and bigger drive into my digimate. Who want to run out of space in the middle of a photographic trip, ahh. So, you saw it. My new 320G byte WD notebook hard drive to be living in my digimate. Who says digital is free??[/lang_en
It is just something very simple but overlooked by me for such a long time. How to know that you camera are stuck in the middle of a bracketing sequence (ie not finished) and how to restart a new bracketing sequence. The answer is in the manual and I just quote it here to remind myself:
So, the bracketing indicator on the top LCD is the only place to find out if you camera is stuck in the middle of an unfinished bracketing sequence. And to reset the bracketing to have a fresh start, the manual says you have 2 choice (but there is only one IMHO). You could either reset you camera (which is pretty dumb when you are shooting in the field and not a choice to me) or you just turn off bracketing by choosing 0F (zero F). Please note that bracketing will not reset with power off or memory card change.
I need to buy a 2nd digimate from Crab as my first one fried during my trip to Yang Jiang last week. It is a cheap device and frankly I don’t expected it to last forever. Just cost about USD30 and you put you choice of 2.5 inches hard disk drive into it. Transfer speed is just great and the built in battery could copy three 4G cards to the hard drive. What I normally do is copy the memory card to the digimate and then copy the data from the digimate to my notebook. Then when I do my photo selection and post processing on my notebook, I could also make sure all date have been copied correctly.
What have I did when my digimate failed in the middle of a trip? I just connect my camera to my notebook and copy the files to my notebook directly. The moto: Always have a backup plan for things that needs to be done in the field.
How long have my last digimate lasted? Just 2 months over a year.
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