And Retired SD Cards
View from the Treehouse
In this modern world
of digital photography, images taken with the camera are stored on
removable SD cards. For the Lumix FZ8 , FZ35, and the Vivitar HD video
camera, I like to use 8GB SD cards because they seem to have just the
right capacity for hundreds of high quality stills, and video clips.
That size is will hold a manageable pile of material I can edit
comfortably.
Layered composition
Today, I discovered
that heat can shorten the life of these SD cards. I can usually expect
that loading and extracting images by the thousands each month will
wear out an 8GB card in about 2 years. However, I now know that if one
leaves the camera in the car for 20 minutes while food shopping and it
is a sunny 100 degrees in Redding, it can shorten the life of these
cards considerably.
View from “A” building at the Treehouse
When I saw
the card error message in the viewfinder, after taking about two
hundred pictures and videos at a Treehouse event, I didn’t consider that
the heat might have damaged the card beyond repair. It was only after
several attempts to retrieve the data that I realized there wasn’t any
data to retrieve.
Orange Daylilies
I reformatted the card and went around the grounds taking a couple hundred pictures to test the card. It failed.
Like any
experienced digital photographer, I have extra SD cards. I popped in a
spare 4GB and took another spin around the Treehouse and photographed
the flowers, mountains, and even the same mockingbird for the third time
on Tuesday.
Treehouse western mockingbird
This little guy,
(California western mockingbird), is friendly and seems to enjoy my
company. When he sees me taking pictures in his area of the property, he
will follow me around and we can ‘talk’ to each other. I can whistle a
short phrase that he will repeat, then he will sing an altered version
to me which I repeat, (if I can). He will do this with our assistant
manager, Erma, too. What a treat.
“Bring gloom, down to the minimum” Photo - Margaret Miller
I went
to the library yesterday, to pick up a book that they were holding for
me. I mentioned the ‘hold’ list that the library provides for those of
us who have nearly exhausted the library’s collection of books that we
enjoy reading. We can increase our chance of reading the latest books by
authors we know, by adding our names to the lists for each new book.
One can do this easily from home on the computer.
When they reach my name on the list, they notify me by email. I like it.
Sterling rose cluster
So it was
that I went to the library to pick up a book they were holding for me.
While I was there, I checked the rack with new arrivals, (usually they
get there after all the people on the hold list have read them), just in
case there were any books I would like that I hadn’t already read.
There were three additional books to add to my catch of the day.
Sometimes
I start reading a book I have brought home only to discover that I have
already read it. One of the reasons for this is I get books from
several sources. I won’t see it on the list of books I have checked out
from the library, (another handy service they provide when one visits
their account online), and that’s one way I end up with books I have
already read.
Yellow rose in the 7pm sun
Once I got
the book home that they had held for me, I opened it to find it was a
large print edition. I shall have to return it. For me, the large print
makes reading cumbersome and slow. I find large print annoying to the
point that I tire of the process before I have read 2 pages of giant
letters that force me to read a sentence, one syllable at a time.
I might find
large print to be helpful in some future circumstance, but for now I
prefer to absorb the information as a sentence or paragraph at a time so
that the words flow at the speed of comprehension.
(More about new books in my life coming soon)
Today’s Light Video;
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Life’s A Beach Sometimes
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