How do you get pictures off a digital camera?

[KPACOTKA]

I never know which is right way.

 

[George P Burdell]

Pull out a flash card and copy to PC using a reader

 

[Steve]

I use a USB cable.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I pull card & plug into laptop's built-in reader or USB reader if I'm moving it to the desktop machine.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: KPACOTKA
I never know which is right way.

There is no right or wrong way. I pull out the flash and use a usb reader. Since I can fill up multiple CF cards by the time I get near my PC. The memory cards are designed to be reused.

I do laugh at my sister in law who says "let me know you pictures from last Christmas"... she then proceeds to whip out her camera and cycle through the images on the card.

 

[dug777]

Just use the cable and the camera.

My 2GB card has plenty of space for me at this stage

 

[sdifox]

I rather risk just the memory card so I use a card reader.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I have one of those floppy / USB 2.0 card reader drives for my main rig and use that.

Edit: I never ever directly connect the camera to the PC via USB.

 

[Brainonska511]

I don't have a card reader at the moment, so I just hook up whatever camera I was using to transfer pictures. In the future, especially if I get a 2nd memory card, I'd probably get a card reader.

 

[Jawo]

I pull the card. I have my own filing system and like to know where my photos are and where they are backed up.

 

[randomlinh]

i pull the card because my 300D and SD200 are USB 1.1, slow as balls. I'm a little worried I'll break all the doors from opening and closing them so much, heh

 

[Rottie]

Connect to PC using USB and then copy there with Canon software that detect and transfer automatically.