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How do you transfer your digital camera pics to your PC?

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TechnoPro

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Just curious as to what peoples habits are... I work with a large variety of clients and this is something that people in general seem have a hard time with.

Do you connect the camera directly to the PC? Or use a card reader?

Do you use software to transfer the pics? If so, which program? Or do you drag and drop, or cut/copy and paste?

Where do you put these pictures (i.e. a folder within My Pictures, loose with other pictures in My Pictures, etc.)? Do you always delete the pictures from the camera/card once transfered?

Do you use a program for photo management (Picasa, Adobe, Corel, etc.)?

Personally, I use a card reader, drag & drop, and use Picasa for photo management.

What are your habits?
 
I use the camera---->USB cable for mine. XP's built-in wizard to transfer them. Irfanview is what I use for resizing and such.

-Jason
 
Originally posted by: JasonSix78
I use the camera---->USB cable for mine. XP's built-in wizard to transfer them. Irfanview is what I use for resizing and such.

-Jason
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Okay, so you have a camera that XP detects as a camera, and not a mass storage device, right? Which kind is it?
 
Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: JasonSix78
I use the camera---->USB cable for mine. XP's built-in wizard to transfer them. Irfanview is what I use for resizing and such.

-Jason
Click to expand...

Okay, so you have a camera that XP detects as a camera, and not a mass storage device, right? Which kind is it?
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I have a Poloriad ION that I just run a USB cable between the PC and the camera.
XP detects the camera and offers to dump the pictures into a MyPictures folder.

 
I use a Smart Media to Floppy Disk adapter, copy and paste from windows explorer. I stick it in docs\pix\(subdirectory) and usually delete them off the card after.

I don't use the "my documents" folders b/c there's too much junk in there from various programs. I could use my photo printer to upload to pc via a usb interface, but don't b/c it can print as a standalone machine and I have few free ports on my pc even after using a hub so it's not hooked up to the system.
 
I use a card reader and just put it in folder in My Pictures named using the current date. I like Picassa a lot too though, but I never really use it.
 
I use a card reader. Files go (drag and drop) to a folder under My Pictures where I categorize them from the Windows Explorer Interface. Copies usually stay on the card because I like having the backup and it's a big card.

This is done on the laptop (because I haven't gotten around to getting a non-PC Card card reader), then automagically sync'ed to a server and sync'ed again to the desktop.

It's somewhat complicated.
 
i have a canon, i just plug it in set it to play mode and press the blue button when it lights up, then they all go into folders sorted by date...automatically, its great
 
Panasonic DMC-FX9. I plug it in USB and drag/drop into a camera folder. 2kpro sees it as a mass storage device. Which I find useful, as I can use the camera as a 512MB flash drive if I need to transfer stuff. Shame 4GB flash cards cost so much at the moment 🙂
 
connect camera to pc via usb cable. for my nikon i use the pictureproject (i think) to transfer.

i have a canon sd200 that i do the same with but use canon's transfer utility.
 
I use my laptop's cardreader. If it weren't for my laptop having this, I would be stuck with using my camera/cable. I let WinXP transfer them and delete them automagically and store them in My Photos seperated by folder of each dump. Picasa is my photo manager.
 
Originally posted by: JasonSix78
I use the camera---->USB cable for mine. XP's built-in wizard to transfer them. Irfanview is what I use for resizing and such.

-Jason
Click to expand...

same here
 
Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: JasonSix78
I use the camera---->USB cable for mine. XP's built-in wizard to transfer them. Irfanview is what I use for resizing and such.

-Jason
Click to expand...

Okay, so you have a camera that XP detects as a camera, and not a mass storage device, right? Which kind is it?
Click to expand...

It detects it as a mass storage device and then pops up XP's Picture wizard. It gives me a thumbnailed list of all the pics/movies on the camera and I can check which ones I want and then upload them to a specified folder on my HDD. The camera is an Olympus D-540.

-Jason

 
Originally posted by: Aluvus
I use a card reader. Files go (drag and drop) to a folder under My Pictures where I categorize them from the Windows Explorer Interface. Copies usually stay on the card because I like having the backup and it's a big card.

This is done on the laptop (because I haven't gotten around to getting a non-PC Card card reader), then automagically sync'ed to a server and sync'ed again to the desktop.

It's somewhat complicated.
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At what point do you remove the copies from the card? How do you avoid the creation of duplicates using your method? What syncing software do you use?
 
I never use the cable and camera connection. Clumsy and wastes time and battery. I remove the media from the camera and archive it into two harddrives. The first is "copy" and the second is "move." That is planned redundancy. After that I return the empty media to the camera for another round.

With high volume (say 150 images at a time, each about 13 megapixels) the camera link is slow and clumsy. I do about 500 pics a month this way - have archives now of over 20,000 digital images.
 
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