How to fix a Microdrive.

[Joseph S Wisniewski]

My Dear Joe

You clearly have a limited understanding of language, words and
meaning.

Ha!

Limited understanding of words? Have you ever successfully created a poem entirely of words that can be represented as roman numerals?

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=17255428

Have you ever successfully brought a term into common use? I was the one who first called the Epson Gloss Optimizer "glop". A search of the Epson and Printing forums turns up hundreds usages of my "glop".

Words mean what I say they mean, when I say them. I have
learned this from the highest sources of government, and see no
reason to clash with accepted wisdom.

But isn't the government policy "words mean what I say they mean right now, not what I said they meant when I said them"?

This has been confirmed by my readings from Alice in Wonderland,
and as you know those books have withstood the test of time. This
also explains my expertise on all and any subject....

So, in this case the "original Brownie" refers to MY original
Brownie.

It's a pity. If you had referred to food, we could all be having desert right now. I'm hungry, and it's all your fault. I hope you feel good about yourself.

Clearly that was what I meant. I know this, because I'm
saying it now. What I said before, must give way to the the truth
of the moment. I emphatically deny saying anything that contradicts
this - and if you quote an earlier post, it merely shows that DP
Refview is not immune to hackers.

Now that we've cleared up the semantics, (unless you post more of
your nonsense, which merely deals with the oh so boring middle
class facts and figures - instead of MY reality) let me continue.

My reality is much more interesting than your reality.

The original Brownie, circa 1956, was a small square brown box,
with a viewfinder, a shutter release button, and a shutter. In
addition there was a 2 Gig Smart Media Card, although for the life
of me, I can't remember where it was inserted. I can't recall
exactly, but I think you could shoot RAW, but this was limited to
fruits and vegetables.

Obviously. Eastman, being a strict vegetarian, would never let the brownie shoot raw meats...

NB. There was NO Meter of any kind. I know this because I just said
it.

This is my last post on this matter, because I really don't enjoy
having the obvious truth of my responses embarass you any further.
And once again, I have confirmation from my dog Chato, who is
watching me type these words.

I will now return to ingesting brownies, since although I couldn't
find my Brownie, I did locate some brownies...

And of course, finally, why do you hate America?

Because they haven't advanced the space program sufficiently to produce a decent interstellar craft, that I can steal and use to return to my home world.

Well, you asked.

--
Detroit Reds Wings - Original Six Hockey with Motown Style!
Thirty-nine, thirteen, and five. Watch your back, Dallas!

Detroit Pistons - Number 1 in the NBA!
Forty-two and nine, we're gonna stomp some Texan!

Ciao!

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com

 

[Joseph S Wisniewski]

Those Brownies had spot metering didn't they?

Only if left out too long. But the spots could be scraped off.

--
Detroit Reds Wings - Original Six Hockey with Motown Style!
Thirty-nine, thirteen, and five. Watch your back, Dallas!

Detroit Pistons - Number 1 in the NBA!
Forty-two and nine, we're gonna stomp some Texan!

Ciao!

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com

 

[George DeCamp]

--
George DeCamp
http://www.decamp.net

 

[Ed Kreiser]

I think that some of the people who are constantly whinning about say the D200 or whatever seems to be stuck in their pants at the moment need a healthy helping of those "special brownies" and I don't mean the Kodak brand either.
To them I say....eat the entire plate with a quart of milk and relax.

Does anyone else agree????

 

[MCC]

First you pray no water entered into the platter compartment.

If you didn't tried the mentioned method the other method is to...
submerge the unit in pure alchohol (medical alchohol 95% or more)

This will dilute water and hopefully remove residues.

Let it evaporate (take your time, don't heat it up but leave it on room temperature for about a day)

Then try the unit and immediatly recover anything you want to get from it.
After that apply the manual from the first posting.

 

[Ed Kreiser]

Here's one for you...I was shooting a wedding and just finished filling a MicroDrive with beautiful images when, as I was changing the drives for a fresh one, I dropped it onto concrete from about 5 feet up. Not only did I completely collapse inside from fear but I was thinking how I was going to reshoot everything in time. After lots of praying I inserted the drive back into my D1x and hit the review button. EVERY SHOT was there unblemished and ready for download. Is that unbelieveable or what??? It is a true story however. The drive was a Hitachi not a IBM for your knowledge.

 

[Chato]

My Dear Joe

You clearly have a limited understanding of language, words and
meaning.

Ha!

Limited understanding of words? Have you ever successfully created
a poem entirely of words that can be represented as roman numerals?

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=17255428

Have you ever successfully brought a term into common use? I was
the one who first called the Epson Gloss Optimizer "glop". A search
of the Epson and Printing forums turns up hundreds usages of my
"glop".

Yes, actually I did. In 1967, I and some friends introduced the expression "tip," whch replaced "split," which replaced leave.

This is all obsolete, because of the new expression, "I'm outta here!" An expression with true "feeling" in every syllable, especially useful for those who inadverdently stumble onto D200 banding threads and desperatley wish to retain their sanity.

However - I will concede the entire argument. After reading your poem, and attempting (very, very briefly) to match it - I know when an argument is lost....

Dave

 

[Manikin]

joke!

 

[Chato]

It's quite depressing when you drop one, pick it up, shake it
gently, and it makes the almost musical rattling of a bunch of
little glass shards. Like chimes...

I dropped a laptop drive once, and not only did the platters
shatter, but the case breeched. It left a trail of broken glass
platter particles, like glitter or pixie dust, along the path the
drive bounced and slid. Very pretty. But depressing, at the same
time.

But if ever there was someone who deserves a thank you - it's the man who started this thread. He led us step by step down the primrose path to his disaster. How many of us could do the same? And not only did he do it, but I kept waiting for him to post a picture, with all those itty bitty bits reassembled and the drive working better then ever.

He did in fact do such a good job, that it took hours before I fell off my chair. I recomend that everyone reexamine those fantastic images and dead pan narration. Perhaps we should all chip in and buy him a Nikon D200 and let him take a stab at the banding question?

Dave

 

[joe field]

nt

Joe

 

[joe field]

Hey, I broke an optical encoder disk once. Got one single piece of about 1/3 of the glass disk. Actually super glued it, put it back and it's still working.
It's called luck.

Joe

 

[mstinso]

ROFLMFAO, oh god you guys are killing me today.

Also, thanks for the pics, it was interesting to have a peak inside of one of these.

 

[Manikin]

But why let truth get in the way of a good joke!

I want to get married tho...

 

[bob elkind]

... printable CF cards ?

Back in December, I head the little "tick, tick" of an impending
"curled edge" paper jam starting on one of my Epson 2200 printers.
Then it quickly goes to "slam, crunch, bang".

I stab the power button, and the printer ejects a sheet with a big,
soggy hole in the middle, and a 512 meg Lexar CF card. The card was
scuffed up a bit, but still operational. It must have been on top
of the printer, then slid down into the feed hopper.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1013&message=16400579

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com

--
D70,50/F1.8,85/F1.8,80-200/F2.8, bigma,
Tokina 24-200/3.5-5.6, Sigma 10-20mm + SB800
Family,in/outdoor sports, landscape, wildlife

• not enough time to get really good at this --

-- but having a lot of fun learning and experimenting --

 

[linuxworks]

note: you CANNOT delete files simply by typing XXX over them. same goes for printing.

(it worked on The Prisoner, but that was a long time ago...)

Back in December, I head the little "tick, tick" of an impending
"curled edge" paper jam starting on one of my Epson 2200 printers.
Then it quickly goes to "slam, crunch, bang".

I stab the power button, and the printer ejects a sheet with a big,
soggy hole in the middle, and a 512 meg Lexar CF card. The card was
scuffed up a bit, but still operational. It must have been on top
of the printer, then slid down into the feed hopper.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1013&message=16400579

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com

--
D70,50/F1.8,85/F1.8,80-200/F2.8, bigma,
Tokina 24-200/3.5-5.6, Sigma 10-20mm + SB800
Family,in/outdoor sports, landscape, wildlife

• not enough time to get really good at this --

-- but having a lot of fun learning and experimenting --

--
bryan ( http://www.grateful.net ) pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works ,
(sample fz30 raw files: http://www.netstuff.org ) ~

 

[Earl Gonzalez]

Stay away from my microdrives! =) LOL
--
Earl Gonzalez ~ STUDIO GOD'S CHILD™
http://godschild.ph

[Hard Work. Patience. Prayer. Determination]

 

[paulski]

I thank you gentleman for the moments of laughter after a trying day.

I say that because even though it was a particularly difficult day, I was, after all, trying.

But I digress, and I will at least post a picture of - yes - dirty SEXXXXX -

so you enjoy

D100 70-200VR 500D combo (with dust)

 

[rsjoberg]

And the feeling of accomplishment is the icing on the cake!

 

[Manikin]

You must have a pretty low tolerance for equipment quality, huh?

They are 'dust bunnies' aren't they? We Olympus owners have only read of such things. [smug grin surpressed for fear of retribution of some kind]

 

[Joseph S Wisniewski]

note: you CANNOT delete files simply by typing XXX over them. same
goes for printing.

(it worked on The Prisoner, but that was a long time ago...)

Here, copy this disk.

Secretary comes back with...

A Xerox copy of the disk

--
Detroit Reds Wings - Original Six Hockey with Motown Style!
Thirty-nine, thirteen, and five. Watch your back, Dallas!

Detroit Pistons - Number 1 in the NBA!
Forty-two and nine, we're gonna stomp some Texan!

Ciao!

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com