Re: file transfer question

[Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wasn’t clear on a couple of things when I asked my question.

I download from a card reader to an internal hard drive via Firewire 800; I don’t download directly from the camera.

The receiving hard drive is 7200RPM.

I do not convert to DNG, I do shoot full RAW.

Thanks for the input so far, I appreciate it.

Lea

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On Feb 28, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Depends.  How fast is the hard drive?  Also depends on fast the computer can run the chksum on the files as they copy. Depends on if you are using Lightroom and converting them to DNG vs not converting them. Lots of depends on stuff as to what something is slow. 

Randy S. Little
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:55 AM Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all.

I use the full line of Canon 5D cameras…original, 2, 3 and 4.

My most frequently used bodies are the 5DM3 which is 22.3 MP, the 5DM4 is 30.4 MP.

While it’s a nice difference in megapixels it isn’t ginormous, but downloading images from the 5DM4 to my computer (using firewire 800 on a Mac Pro running High Sierra with 32 gigs of RAM) takes ages. I’m using Lexar Pro compact flash cards (UDMA 7, 800x). My hard drive has over a terrabyte of available space on it.

Is this slow process of downloading normal when using these larger megapixel cameras?

Is there a link in my system that can be changed to speed file transfers up?

Thanks for any insight you can offer,

Lea

your kids . my camera . we’ll click

www.leamurphy.com