This makes an important point: settings determine whether the second card is a backup. I have camera bodies with one card and I just make sure to copy to my computer at end of each day. So you can lose that great day I guess.

Great stylish shot! I have just revived my Contax G2. Put in the batteries, reset the date, and it's ready to
go after being on the shelf for ca. 20 years.

Airdrop is an application specific to Mac computers so will not work with a PC. There are PC analogues like AirDroid Personal. But if you just have one photo to transfer or just a few, you can also email them to yourself as attachments. This is a very clunky solution. Airdrop for Mac - I use this and it is really great. If Airdroid Personal or other apps work like this then they should be preferred.

Thanks for comments!

Our family recently toured Japan and were overwhelmed with the spirit and fun to be found everywhere. I will submit a few sets but here is the famous Dotonbori district in the Chuo Ward of Osaka City, which stands up against any place in the world for street food and tremendous fun. The streetscape consists of great morsels of food, wonderful restaurants, but most of all a wild array of storefront signs. So here are just a few! Lots of comfort food but maybe some dishes that challenge the American palate.

It is always hard to travel to difficult places and tours are often a good way to get in touch with places
that might not even be thought of. My family lived in Sydney twice and we did rent a car and travel west,
eventually touring along the Great Ocean Road, which is spectacular, and took a quick ferry to Kangaroo
Island, seeing the fairy penguin colony, an Australian seal beach, and Remarkable Rocks in the SW part of
the island. We did have great luck visiting Uluru and the Red Center by engaging WayOutback, a camping trip
organization that still exists and arranges really great camping experiences, including road trips, hikes, and cabins. So I would recommend a month's visit, with side trips planned. A long trip to be sure, but there is a lot to see.
Have a great trip, mate!

Indeed. And the little ones will soon follow. Still...have a great time!

The Gamecock Cottage in Stony Brook NY (now under renovation) at the opening of West Meadow Creek is one of my favorites for photos. Here is the first goose family of spring rising with the tide past the cottage. This was a particularly nice cloudy background day. No post, no AI.

Yes yes they don't call it the "Red Center" for nothing. Here is another image
from a nearby place called "The Olgas". This is the image I got straight from
Kodak. Using the same ISO 100 Kodak Ektachrome film, taken with the mighty
Contax G2 with 21 mm Zeiss lens (do you know this lens? a beauty).

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Love to see pictures of Uluru - Here is mine from 2000, taken with Ektachrome film, using a Contax
G2 with Zeiss 21 mm lens. I still have the camera, but the film was available in Australia. We were
camping and somewhere I have the sunrise photo from another location.

Thanks for your recommendations. I will get a cat. And hope you have a nice day.

This is the wikipedia definition of pancake lens:
"A pancake lens is a colloquial term for a flat, thin camera lens assembly (short barrel). The majority are prime lenses of a normal or slightly wider angle .."

In other words: there are no very good definitions accepted. Fits my Panasonix lumix F 1.7 20 mm; fits my Fujinon F 2.8 27 mm. Fits my air-focus pancake lens. Fits....

I don't think Fujifilm is very popular with UHH folk, but I strongly recommend tha Fujinon 27 mm 1:2.8 lens, mated to the wonderfully small X-T30 body. This is about as unobtrusive a kit as you can have and is excellent to use. Lens runs about $300.

Really lovely shots! In Buffalo there were clouds but they winked in and out on the upside,
so I got nice shots like yours. We did see Baily's Beads, but totality was a washout and the backside was largely obscured by clouds. So congratulations! Although we did have a great time yelling when the clouds opened!

So marvelous!
My blad story: was photographing annular eclipse with a 5” reflector with a focusing screen. Sun was perfect with solar rim. Squeezed the trigger…nothing. Again.. nothing. My 6 yr old says “dad”. Again nothing. “Dad!”. “Dad, pull the thing out!” Pulled out the protective slide..bingo. Perfect bw shot! “Thanks, Nathan!”