Equipment testing.

Last night I was testing out some of my equipment that I am going to take along on the Colorado trip. After doing lots of photography trips to various places, I have learned to test things before a trip. My friend Kevin from New York always makes sure that we test things before we go. It is an essental concept to do, because the middle of no where is the last place you want to see if something will work. I make lists, he makes lists and then we compare and do this process till everything is right. Max and I have been doing this for this trip also by using Google's Gmail to do this. In Gmail you can set up documents you can share with other users and allow them to edit them. Everyone involved in the document gets to see the changes when they are made. You should try it!

I get my laptop out last night and start doing some prep work for the trip in Photoshop. I wanted to play with the actual size image from my new snapshot digital camera to see how I wanted to format them for the blog. Got my card reader out and placed the SD card in and it would not read. Strange I thought.....I tried it again and no luck. I gave it to Becky to try on her laptop and it did not read. Well crap, it worked the other day. I took it to my other two computers and it did not work. This had me a little worried and my brain began to click with ideas. I went and got another SD card that I use in my GPS and plugged it in and it worked! Plugged the other card from the camera and it did not work. I figured I would need to use the cord to transfer the images from the camera to the laptop. This mornning I took one of my other SD cards and took a picture and the card reader read the SD card. So the Sandisk card reader will not read the Sandisk SD card, but it will read the PNY SD card. I can't figure out why it does it, but I have a work-around to get the images of the card. Strange, but that's what happens when you play with geek toys!

Now it is time to go check out some other things on the list. I'll keep you posted.
-mark