Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dom, Really, learn a work flow that will let you remove your card from your camera. Downloading from a card reader is much less traumatic than have a battery go flat during download. So, open the bottom of the camera, touch your finger to something that will drain static from you, pull the card out and slide it into a card reader. Very quick, easy, and affordable. On 3/21/07, Dominic Morris <dommorris@rogers.com> wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com