[LRflex] Re: Malfunction on a Digilux 3 ? Naw! Embedded Computer issues :)
- From: Richard Ward <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:31:03 -0500
Greetings,
I am quite glad you determined your intermittent camera 'failure' was due to
something you had done and not that the camera was failing. I read an
interesting article from MacWorld this week about one of their writer's
experience tracking down a 'bug' in an email application he used routinely.
Turns out the 'bug' was all his own doing: he had 'told' the app to behave in a
certain way years earlier to solve an esoteric problem and now it was returning
to mess up his inbox almost daily. The dirty little secret of Tech Support is
the main cause of computer problems is the link between the seat and the
keyboard! :-D
The lesson I see coming from the experience you're sharing is that the advice
we've all been given to ALWAYS format memory cards for any camera only in the
camera they are used in Also Means don't format them in the computers we
connect those cards to.
I can't claim to have never violated this 'rule'!
But, that doesnt make it not be good advice :-)
Richard in Michigan
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Proceed With Caution. :-)
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On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:14 AM, Bille Xavier F. <hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Good day to all
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> Paris, today, under snow, better stay inside wrapped around some heater...
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> Since a while, I had some "error reading card" message at start up of my
> beloved Digilux 3.
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> The strange detail is that the problem occured on card of 2gb and on a brand
> new Class 10 of 4gb.
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> When the card got formatted on the camera, I could take 2 or 3 shots and then
> randomly, at power up, I would get that nasty message.
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> The cure was to open the card door and re-insert the card :
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> http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/P1010886.JPG (macro mode from Pana LX3,
> Digilux speaks French)
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> But it was troublesome as it would appear on a random mode and of course when
> least expected. It was my chance that the Dragon was at least 3 layers of
> parisian away from me, I have not missed much shots :
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> http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/L1090576_dev.jpg (Digilux3, Vario)
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> To summarize the situation, I thought my Leica had faultered after 5 years of
> use. Grumbling about it.....
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> Then, it happened that the SD card of 4gb provoked a seizure of operation on
> the LX3, a very interesting event (in a system test & commissionnig POV, of
> course!).
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> After a few experiments which details are not of interest here, I happened to
> find out that my laptop running under Windows used the "default allocation
> table" to format the SD cards. Probably my fault, I did not take any interest
> in this detail before.
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> As a cure, I have used the SDFormater tool found in the utilities offered in
> Panasonic Japan site.
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> Result: the Digilux has been able to take over 100 shots on a 4 gb, powering
> off and on regularily during the sequence. No trouble, no art either...
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> For reference, I'll say that both SD, 2gb with FAT and the 4gb with FAT32
> should have a 32K bytes in the unit allocation. This is true for the LX3 and
> the Digilux3 / Panasonic L1.By extension, I would not be surprised to find
> this requirement for other models by Panasonic.
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> On a 4gb, the default allocation unit of "Windoze" offerd 179 shots (with
> buggy Digilux 3), the value is set back to 175 with the proper parameters.
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> When the card is formatted on the camera, before the first picture, only the
> directories DCIM and MISC are created. After the first picture is taken, the
> directory LEICA or PANA appears under DCIM. The camera format just write the
> FAT/FAT32 and does not perform a complete allocation.
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> One thing funny: When a SD card is inserted in the Panasonic LX3, pictures
> are taken and placed in directory DCIM\PANA. When the card is placed in the
> Digilux3, the pictures can be viewed on the camera. When pictures are taken
> with the Digilux 3 , they are stored in DCIM\LEICA. Then if the card is
> returned back to the LX3, it can read the images from the Digilux. Both
> directory co exists peacefully.
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> So, the Digilux 3 is fine, no fault found (NFF), just an absentminded user,
> me....
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> Sorry for the long post, I thought it would be of use to some of you.
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> Enjoy your sunday!
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