[Leica] Adobe Photodownloader

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Dom,

I take the SD card out every time to down load the images to the computer, 
and do the same with the CF cards for my D200.  Have had zero problems and 
do not ever expect to have a problem.  I use one of the usb card readers and 
the downloading process takes but 30 seconds or so.  I never use the camera 
to computer method, as it depends on cdamera power, which could be better 
used to make images.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Dominic Morris <dommorris@rogers.com>: 
-------------- 


> Greetings. 
> 
> I loath the prospect of taking the SD card from my camera, especially 
> in bone dry winter air when static cackles at the touch of - well, 
> anything, really. Upgrading firmware to 1.092 was a major trauma. 
> 
> So I have always opted for USB cable downloading of images to my 
> iMac's hard drive. Initially Image Capture seemed to have a hard 
> time recognizing the M8 but then settled down. I also tried the Adobe 
> Photo Downloader and drooled over its capabilities. With it you can; 
> * down load images to one directory and create a subdirectory on the 
> fly (I download to 2007, subdirectory CreateDate in MM/DD format) 
> which I consider the Archive directory for later back up to DVD, and 
> ultimately to a 2nd hard drive; 
> * download copies to a second directory, in my case WorkingFiles. 
> * rename the incoming images. 
> * covert other raw formats (or the Leica DNG) to DNG (great for 
> Aperture users). 
> * populate Author and Copyright metadata fields. 
> 
> Solves a whole lot of workflow issues. Trouble is it took forever to 
> boot up and sometimes completely froze Bridge. You could wear out a 
> battery waiting for this sucker. 
> 
> Good news is that with Bridge CS3 Beta 2, it seems to work great 
> first time every time. 
> 
> Colour me happy. 
> 
> Dom 
> 
> -- 
> Reminder: all disks eventually fail. All computers eventually fail. Make 
> backups 
> or lose your work. 
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