USB v Memory Card

Ah right, I'm with you now, thanks.

Yes, I got a disc with mine but didn't bother with it, I'm glad I didn't now. Can I use a USB directly from camera to computer without the software installed?

 

I like what the Canon software does with my images - not to say that everyone else would though!

• Download only "New" images
• Put them in a folder (in a location that I can configure) and name that folder based on the date that the photos were taken (so if I leave it a few days, and use the camera every day, when I connect it will create several folders)
• Optionally add a Suffix to the folder name (e.g. "Joe's Wedding")
• Optionally delete photos from Camera's card after downloading

 

Thanks Armandii. I'm not sure that would work for me. At present when my photo's have loaded I put them into a 'Sorting' file until I'm ready to make adjustments or move them. Very few of my pics are named. Are you saying that if I want to to name them it would be while they are still in the camera, or when they are on computer?

 

Indeed. The Canon software doesn't do anything with the images after download (although it can), so I then do whatever I want with them.

I am mostly taking pictures to keep (well ... being a hoarder are my pictures are Keepers!), so having them filed by date is fine by me. I might then reduce the size of some that I took today and upload them here

In your case I expect most?? of your images are part of your Photography hobby and thus you will post-process them after download?

Me too, my Canon software downloads them as IMG_1234.jpg. I leave that name (as it is an ascending number, so chronological, and I rename those that I want to with a suffix e.g. IMG_1234_QuercusRobur.jpg - the if I upload it to a forum and change the name to "IMG_1234_Oak" or "IMG_1234_Small.jpg" then if I stumble over it in a different context, in a year's time say, I can still fine where IMG_1234 is on my system with a few trial-and-error clicks around my file folder tree structure.

If I photograph a plant for my records I photo the plant first, and then its label last. Once downloaded I do the Suffix-rename based on the label's photo (and then usually I delete the Label photo, if it adds nothing else to the story)

Just my 2p worth.

 

I was thinking the same John , the first ever GC concensus . Normally when you ask a question you get three answers - Yes - No - Possibly !

 

Pete , I am only a point and click photographer ,I use a Nikon Compact the software that came with it is very good " View NX2 ". Download link below - not sure if it is fully free or a 30 day trial .
http://nikonimglib.com/nvnx/index_en_eur.html#os-windows
It has all the features of Kristens Canon software as copied below. It auto loads as soon as the USB is connected , then just press download . Files are stored in a transfer folder where you can delete all the dross and then file them away .

• Download only "New" images
• Put them in a folder (in a location that I can configure) and name that folder based on the date that the photos were taken (so if I leave it a few days, and use the camera every day, when I connect it will create several folders)
• Optionally add a Suffix to the folder name (e.g. "Joe's Wedding")
• Optionally delete photos from Camera's card after downloading

I use the free software packages FastStone to sort my photos and do basic editing. If I need a more complex edit I use PhotoFiltre7 this is free and is great for touching up photos

 

I got into the habit of taking the SD card out of POS zoom pocket cameras after I connected the lead, placed my camera on my desk in front of a book, turned it on and then watched it push itself off the edge as the zoom extended.

 

The thing is I have my own way of putting them in folders, a new folder each month etc.

I rarely go back and look at them or, virtually never, do any tinkering with the images.
I just have them there for reference should I need them.

Its probably a flawed system to anyone else, but I'm used to it.

 

Me too, by year and then month. If there's some event I want to keep separate I'll create a new folder for it in the relevant year and copy images into it.

 

Blimey, someone else does it the same way.