Moose, in my previous life, I managed large, multi-million dollar
government plants which, by government decree, were operated and
maintained according to formal written procedures. I had to be familiar
enough with all of the functions in order to catch any final mistakes in
those procedures and add the approving signature. Hence, I'm procedure,
or work-flow oriented. I have an inherent distrust of using someone
else's cobbled-up automated process.
That's not to say it isn't right for you. If you are happy with that
approach, go for it.
I realize that, with your travels, you have much more inclination to
record location, and other exif data, and that makes sense. Date, time,
camera, lens and subject matter work fine for me.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 2/7/2019 11:51 PM, Moose wrote:
On 2/7/2019 10:47 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
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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.
On 2/7/2019 5:58 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
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My Fuji cameras start a new internal folder whenever the number of
images reaches an even 1000. This sometimes causes me to miss an
image, which I have to search for. And it leaves two folders to be
deleted. In these cases, I usually do an in-camera format just to
clean things up.
You guys honestly hand copy from the cards? I wouldn't rely on me to
get that right every time.
I know there are several programs that do the copying, and the keeping
track, automagically. I happen to use PIE, free version. In addition
to it's very useful EXIF displays, it has a lovely download function.
I stick the card in a slot on the computer or the USB 3.0 reader, PIE
pops up, I select which camera it's from, and PIE copies the files to
date named folders under the proper camera folder, with automatic
sub-folders for video, whatever. It then switches the archive bit in
the card directory, so each time, it knows just which files are new.
I've been using it for years, and it's been perfect. Far better than I
may be on a bleary/tired/distracted day.
I then, often later, have LR sync catalog the new files.
Simple, reliable, free - what's not to like?
Down Right Moose
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