Re: file transfer question

[Jan Faul <nyce2jan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I gave up a few yeas ago and put everything in the cloud. I have 32TB of HD space and it isn’t enough. I’ve got 250TB in the cloud and I hope it’s enough.

Jan

On Feb 28, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I do have a Lexar FW800 card reader. I am moving files from the media card to an internal, 8gig hard drive, 7200RPM. This drive has over 1 TB of available space on it.

Lea

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On Feb 28, 2019, at 3:54 PM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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. 
 

Randy S. Little
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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

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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. 

Randy S. Little
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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 bottleneck

good luck.

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file transfer question


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