I have two cameras that use CF cards, and 5 that use SD cards. I have noticed
no difference in downloads between the two. And I too am approaching hte no
green bananas stage.
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From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 1:08:09 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Doing Things the Old Way
:-D
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 2/7/2019 12:57 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Green bananas! Ouch, that's harsh. I don't know, Jim might be getting a bit
> long in the tooth but I think he has a better chance of being with us than
> you up in hungry bear, shaky shaky land.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 1:48 PM Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Thanks, Ken. I always suspected that the slow upload from CF cards
>>> stemmed from the cards themselves, not the connection to the computer.
>> It's a combination of things. I've gone through several card readers.
>> The ones that were certainly faster than the E-1 and E-3 proved
>> unreliable and ended up failing or whatever at some point. The one
>> that I still have is rather slow, but it works without grief. The E-1
>> isn't the very fastest, by any means, but it's not horribly slow
>> either. My previous laptop had a built-in CF card slot and it was just
>> slightly faster with the same cards.
>>
>> The one thing that I've found that speeds up the process the most is
>> hand copying the files from the cards to a folder on my primary image
>> HD and then importing or syncing that folder in Lightroom. If you let
>> Lightroom do the import from the CF card to the destination folder
>> there is substantial delay as there is far more back-and-forth
>> communication going on between the computer and the card than if you
>> do a straight copy first.
>>
>> I realize that you may be at a point in your life where you probably
>> no longer buy green bananas, but I think that you're doing just fine
>> with the slower downloads from the E-1.
>>
>> AG Schnozz
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