How do you upload your shots from your DSLR?

[phineas_tarbolde1]

Do you upload to a laptop while on site?

Do you upload to a hard disk device (e.g. Epson)

Do you upload the cards once you get back to your studio/office?

 

Also, do any of you use a wireless upload device?

Do you yank or cards out of the camera or connect the camera using firewire/USB?

 

I'd be interested in your preferences and your rationale behind them.

 

thanks.

[phoneguy]

I carry a dozen 2 gig cards. When the card is full, I slip it in a pouch on my belt, and replace

it. I plug the cards directly into the USB card reader on my Imac at home, and import them

into LR. I personally don't want to hassle with a laptop, or storage device, but I have the

luxury of a dual card camera with a slot for SD, and CF.

[gerald_donnelly]

I find it's easier to carry extra cards & change them out. I would hate to make a mistakeunder pressure & accidently erase something-jmo

[tony bennett]

I place my cards back into the plastic case they came in which has full card written on side. I usually wait until I am home and download to my desktop then immediately burn a dvd copy, then copy to an external hard drive. I then have them in 3 places within an hour of getting home.

[ellis_vener_photography]

I download the cards once I get back to your studio/office. BecasueI shoot wit hCanon EOS 1D (specificallythe 1Dsand 1D mark 3 ) I have two cards in the camera and my shots are backed up from a CF to an SD card while I shoot.

[iskandar_azaman___kuala_lu]

I wish i could afford a dual card DSLR. But as of right now, i just bring loads of CF cards and never format on site. NOTHING IS DELETED. When i get back home, i upload all the cards and do some metadata stuff and then copy it to a second drive. Then i burn a dvd copy.

[kaiyen]

Same as others - lots of cards (currently 6 2GB ones), download as soon as I get home. I then run my local backup job from my workstation to my server. The server backs up to one of two external drives each night.

 

allan

[david_sparks2]

When I get home I go through the photos and erase any obviously bad shots. Then I upload them to my computer. Once they're on my computer hard drive I make a duplicate copy on an external hard drive. Now I have three copies of the files!

 

If I have two weddings in one weekend I'll make a DVD copy of the files.

[DickArnold]

2 GB cards make a lot of sense. If you lose one card you don't lose half the weddiing. I was always too busy at weddings to do anything else but take pictures. I used my spare time to eat my free meal.

[fotografz]

I shoot to cards only and do not use a separate storage drive. If needed, I swap cards out

for new when the opportunity presents itself rather than when the card is full ... CFs are

super inexpensive now days. Once shot, I turn them upside down to make sure I don't try

to reuse them in the heat of battle. All the cards are on my person at all times.

 

Since the advent of 8 gig SDs, I now use 8 gig CF cards in the Canons because both

cameras shoot to both cards at once. Most people shooting with single card slot cameras

use 2 gig cards to limit risk ... but in my opinion if you shoot alone, and lose the card with

the first dance, or dad escorting the bride down the aisle, you are a "dead man walking"

anyway : -)

 

Once home, I immediately download the contents of the cards using 4 daisy chained Lexar

Pro card readers to a single desktop folder ... then remove the cards and set them aside as

is ... then open the desktop file in Lightroom which also allows a copy to be sent to a

seperate hard drive. I don't reformat the CFs until the job is done and the client's DVDs

are burned ... or in the case of larger wedding, until I load their images on a Lacie portable

drive which I give to them.

[jon jacobson]

<i>...I load their images on a Lacie portable drive which I give to them.</i>

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Excellent and awesome idea Marc!! Does the OS ever become an issue (Mac to PC)?

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I transfer at home with a couple of CF card readers. The new Bridge CS3 has a handy utility to transfer all files from a card used on the 20Ds (instead of 100 at a time in different folders, it transfers all at once). Unfortunately, it works on only one card at a time.

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Destination weddings are different. I'll transfer at the hotel (CF card reader), then burn DVDs and mail the DVDs home.

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I think transfering directly from your camera is undue stress on the camera. Use it to take pictures. Use a card reader for transfer.

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Immediate wireless on-site transfer AS A BACKUP is an interesting option, but seems a little involved. I'm not fond of the idea of leaving computer equipment unattended. Now if you could rig a Pelican case with a power cord, proper ventilation and lock it down, you may be on to something. :)

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- Jon

[joshranwest]

Plug the D200 directly into my desktop via USB. For JPEG's, open picture project, and acquire all images. Copy all images to desktop in a new folder. For RAW, open Capture NX, get the files. Transfer to desktop in a new folder.

[conraderb]

I use many CF cards. when they are full, they go to a card wallet.

 

unless you have a reason to do so, I would avoid playing with images while at the wedding.

 

copy all images to folders and verify using 'get info' that all data was copied. I used to use a utility for this but have stopped b/c it got weird.

 

when copy is done, copy all files to TWO hard drives, so that I have four copies of every image - on memory card, on hard drive and on backup hard drives.

 

card readers are usually much faster and easier than using the camera to transfer images.

[surfidaho]

>> ...I load their images on a Lacie portable drive which I give to them.

 

>> Excellent and awesome idea Marc!! Does the OS ever become an issue (Mac to PC)?

 

As long as the Lacie drive is formatted FAT-32, both Mac and PC will talkie-talk just fine with it.

 

Later,

 

Paulsky

[fotografz]

That's correct Paul. Viewable on any computer.

 

The hard drive is a 40 gig USB-2 unit, is small, and is white. Allows larger, high res. tiffs to

be saved, and the client can add any folders with pics shot by friends and family as well as

their honeymoon shots.

 

I do urge the clients to copy all of it to another secure source, and I also give them an

archival gold CD with jpgs for everyday use.

[phineas_tarbolde1]

So it looks like none of you/your assistant "check" your photos on-site - just to make certain that everything is ok -- especially the family shoots.

 

It seems that no one really uses the portable hard drive devices (you see lots of ads for them in mags), but no one seems to use them.