Sorry, that would not give me the "slide show" of best photos for use
during an extended vacation trip. My issue is not storage - I use my
portable hard drive for that, and its 40GB costs less than 2 large CF
cards.
--- Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Probably more easily fixed by buying lots of spare CF cards and
> forget
> about the copy operation.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Don Shedrick wrote:
> > I have come up with a couple of complaints about the current
> firmware
> > in the E-500 relative to file copying to another card, and with
> file
> > deleting. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I missing
> something?
> >
> > Having two cards is a neat feature and opens up the possibility
> of
> > creating a second collection of images on the spare card, useful
> when
> > on a long trip and I would like to keep a small file version (HQ)
> of
> > some of my best shots to review during the trip and show to
> others.
> > The RAW and corresponding HQ jpg on the main card I will download
> to
> > a portable cardreader/hard drive. The annoying thing is you
> cannot
> > select to just copy to the spare card just the jpg or the RAW of
> the
> > selected files - you have to copy both. Then I have to manually
> > delete just the RAW file from the spare card to keep enough space
> to
> > hold a week or two of the best shots.
> >
> > That is where the second annoyance comes in. You thankfully can
> > select to delete just the RAW or just the jpg, but only if you
> delete
> > one file at a time, not when you select a series of files and try
> to
> > delete one type of all the selected files at once. In that case
> you
> > would delete both the RAW and jpg. Also annoying is when you
> select
> > to delete just one of the file types, which you must do one file
> at a
> > time, after deleting the file, you are scrolled back to the last
> file
> > on the card. So if you are trying to delete a long series of
> files
> > of just one file type, you have to keep scrolling back to where
> your
> > next file to delete is.
> >
> > All very annoying, when it could be made so much easier. It is a
> > great feature that is made very annoying by poor execution. It
> does
> > work - just annoying and more time consuming than it should be.
> It
> > seems to me this could be easily fixed by a firmware update.
> >
> >
> >
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