Broken laptop is a bit like shooting film

As some of you know my laptop died last week at the beginning of my stay in Sardinia, Italy. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=237118) this is the problem, BTW.

I am able to download my pictures onto my girlfriend's laptop, but I am not able to look at them, really. I have to wait until I am home, and to be honest I am quite looking forward to the buzz of seeing all my shots at once,a week or so after I took some of them. Its like getting your film back in the old days. That end of trip excitement that we just don't get any more. I don't want it to be a regular thing, but this once I am happy with the situation.

To be honest, my laptop problems could have happened at a worse time, given all the travelling I do. This is not a dedicated dive trip, instead I am on holiday seeing my girlfriend's family. But we have managed to squeese in some exellent diving, including some great dives with some Italian uw photo friends and highlights including the KT-12 German WW2 wreck, a seahorse dive and the groupersof Lavezzi. Although frustratingly a dog hair in my o-ring (the perils of diving from home) meant I had to leave the groupers and ascend after just 13 minutes (leak only enough to set off alarm, but still had to come up).

Hoping that I can get my laptop fixed before coming to the Pacific Northwest in less than a couple of weeks Otherwise I'll be buying a new one. The diving I have between now and then in the UK can be done without a laptop.

Anyway, its funny how there is often a brightside to these things.

Alex

Alex

Back when I used to shoot film, the very act of taking photos underwater gave me far more joy than the final results. I would be on a dive sure that I was getting some of my best images only to be disappointed once I got the film developed. I used to swear I was going to stop even putting film in the camera and just swim around taking photos. Over the years my images have improved but occasionally I still feel like leaving the card out because I enjoy shooting far more than the labor (and sometimes still, disappointment) that follows on the computer. So although I doubt you experience many less than perfect shoots like us average photogs, I know what you mean about the anticipation.

I am able to download my pictures onto my girlfriend's laptop, but I am not able to look at them, really. I have to wait until I am home, and to be honest I am quite looking forward to the buzz of seeing all my shots at once,a week or so after I took some of them. Its like getting your film back in the old days. That end of trip excitement that we just don't get any more. I don't want it to be a regular thing, but this once I am happy with the situation.

Anyway, its funny how there is often a brightside to these things.

 

Alex

I find myself looking at things less on trips than when I used to when I first started with the instant gratification (and dissapointment) of digital. Get a bit of an idea when looking when the image is shot, then do a download/scan (sounds like how you did not look at them "really") then look more when I get home. May pull a quick shot or two on the road if it catches my eye, but overall find myself doing less when traveling and use that time instead to enjoy wherever I am some more and try to limit the time in front of the computer since I do that enough when not traveling. Of course there are times where I will look more (rainy days or knowing I need to get something done for whatever time frame) and I would not give up looking or having a laptop, but more so trying to balance the forest and the trees.

Hey Alex, not sure why you can't view your photos on your girlfriends laptop, but if it is becouse she doesn't have a raw convertor then go to www.rawworkflow.com and download the jpeg from raw convertor. It's a free utilty and it extracts the jpeg image from the raw file.

Mike

hey Alex - did you try the workflow that Scratt suggested in post number 36 of that MacRumors thread?

It seemed to have helped some..... maybe it will help you?!

Good luck

Chris

Yes. With no luck. New computer just arrived, coincidentally. It looks lovely, but I wish I hadn't had to buy it.

Alex