Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Gene, Variety makes this world of ours a lovely place so whatever works for you is great. A few years ago I fried a 500 meg ram chip I was stupidly trying to install myself. Sad lesson. Guy shy ever since. I won't say my way is better, since 'better' is defined by personal preference as much as anything. Downloader works exceptionally well for me and Bridge CS3 beta 2 improves it immeasurably. I haven't timed it but the USB is FAST for the M8, at a guess 5 to 10 times faster then with my old Sony, so the battery drain would seem to be minimal. I always keep a fully charged spare ready to go. Next time I accumulate a fair sized batch I'll time the process and get back to you. My day job (not photography related) takes 50+ hours per week and I could easily do more. That makes my photography time a proper luxury and not to be wasted on mundane but vital work flow processes. Just as your batteries are better spent making images, so is my time. I will use any form of automation I can find to minimize computer time. It's more than just the download. It's backing up, renaming and adding some personalized metadata fields as well, plus if I were an Aperture user, adapting the Leica DNG to something Aperture can read. Downloader does all that very nicely. The only thing it lacks is an option to erase the card. I've forgotten to do so manually more than once and ended up with double download next go round. Ah, well. They have to leave something for the next version to call an improvement. Cheers, Dom On 22-Mar-07, at 12:19 AM, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote: 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. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information