by cg on September 16, 2007
After a phone call to Leica USA repair, during which I actually talked to someone who was on top of things, it seems Leica has received a shipment of new Sony image sensors, and my D-2, which has languished in New Jersey for 5 months, will be repaired and returned this week.
Leica offered to upgrade me to a Digilux 3 for $950 as an option, but a. I didn’t think parting with another thousand bucks was a particularly good solution for a warranty repair, and I really love the D-2’s black and white mode – no way to know if the D-3 is as good. About time… 5 months doesn’t seem a reasonable amount of time to be denied use of an expensive camera…
by cg on September 16, 2007
New Rector Father Mike Spillane is greeted by Bishop Marc Andrus at Mike’s installation service yesterday at Trinity Episcopal Church in Menlo Park. The Lumix, sitting on a tripod and setting appropriately slow shutter speeds, brought out the colors in Trinity’s not-overbright Nave. I’m getting used to working on the tripod… it’s a bit tricky… but we’re learning…
by cg on September 16, 2007
The screen shot above shows what iLife ‘08 did to a 7-year-old collection of photos and albums – some 30,000 pictures that used to work flawlessly in iPhoto ‘06 are just unrecognized by iPhoto ‘08. Dozens, if not a hundred albums, including thigs like John and Julie’s wedding just show blank squares where thumbnails once were.
I did a manual rebuild of the photodatabase (and made a copy) and iPhoto ‘08 wrecked it again. The bug is completely repeatable for large databases. Lately Linda has found that she can’t export recently imported pictures – she gets a weird ‘Can’t create directory’ error – except the directory exists and is writable.
An attempt to put up a picture page with iWeb this morning failed repeatedly with an obscure rss permissions error. No clue how to fix. So $80 worth of iLife plus $80 for .Mac equals, so far, zero value. Linda’s so angry she wants to take iLife back to Apple Store and shout at somebody.
iLife ‘08 also killed our Picasaweb upload plug-in, but fortunately Google offers a standalone uploader, which worked flawlessly. So free Google trumps buggy, useless $160 worth of Apple software…