So you have a FW800 card reader. Are you converting in LR to DNG? Cause that will make it seem like everything takes forever cause it is :-) I always find it faster to copy the cards first before importing into a Library program no matter which one.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 4:51 PM Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Randy,You understand all this far better and more deeply than I do. Thanks for the info.I am not using USB 3 because my computer doesn’t have it…I’m using a Mac Pro tower so have some limits on what it can do.My hard drive is the regular old platter spin kind, not SSD.Lea
On Feb 28, 2019, at 3:39 PM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:The 5DM4 is USB 3.0 or 5Gbps or 625MBps (theoretical cut 1/3 off of that) Why would you use FW800 which best case is 104MBps. I"m betting your HD isn't an SSD so it probably is maxing out at 60-70MBps. You CF cards 120MBps theoritical. Which is clearly faster then the FW800 interface.On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:14 PM Karl Shah-Jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I have always pulled my cards, popped them into a card reader and transferred them that way - now days using USB3 - it's quick.. though I've used everything from kermit to firewire in the past ;)As a windows user I also have a .BAT file I made up sitting on the desktop, insert the card, double click the bat which copies any files on the card in the reader to a folder for storage, makes up a bunch of smaller thumbnail sized images in a subfolder and a contact sheet which I can print if I choose Aside from the copying, Irfanview does all that backbone work command line style - ie, hidden without even launching.I'm sure a firewire card reader will be quicker than relying on whatever speed is limiting the transfer protocol from the camera(s)I'm also sure if you stuff a disk full of images, time the transfer, then go to a tame computer store and ask to test the speed of a card reader they'd be happy to let you time the same process for comparison - don't worry what computer or OS it is, just compare speed. I suspect you'll find transferring from the camera is your bottleneckgood luck.
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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
