Shooting RAW with 10D?

[soumya63]

How you guys manage to shoot RAW and convert it to TIFF with that jumbo file size? With D30 it was my default and only shooting mode. But with 10D it has become rather impractical. So even though the camera is capable to producing wonderful resolution, many times it may not be practical to shoot in RAW and then when you get a keeper, you repent you have not done so. Help we need terabyte CF cards.

[justme_dc]

Well with a 1gig card, shooting RAW and depending on the subject and lighting etc., I get between 169 and 215 images. That's 4-6 thirty six (36) exposure rolls of film. That's a lot of Images. At work it is common for me to shoot a full pro pack of Velvia or Provia in a day. That's 20 x 36 exposures or 720 frames. With the 10D those images fit nicely on five 1Gig CF cards. They do make 2 and 3 gig cards now and the 10D supports them so I guess it's just a matter of money. It's only money right?

Now if you could connect your 10D to an external 100Gig hard drive and shoot straight to that.....that would be cool!

[kendersplace]

justme_dc wrote:
Now if you could connect your 10D to an external 100Gig hard drive and shoot straight to that.....that would be cool!


You know, I've often wondered why this isn't possible. It seems like comon sense to me. If you could have your images sent via USB instead of to the CF card. I know this would be slower, but there are work arounds. I'm a programmer myself and it wouldn't be that hard. You could set the buffer to write to CF, then the CF replicates to the USB device and deletes the image off the CF - that way you could keep your 9 fps buffer open. When you took a 2 minute break to switch lenses or fiddle with lighting, your camera would be busy catching up and pushing your images to your USB device. This would really work well if they had included USB 2.0 on the 10D (what were you thinking Canon??? :( ).

This would really make sense for studio photographer types. One could set up an application that displays the image on a large screen monitor as soon as it is copied to the computer - portrait photographers would love that.

Also, there are quite a few USB hard drives out now, even caddys that you put your own hard drive in. One could get one of those units and a 80 or 120 GB hard drive for the price of a 3 GB CF card or Microdrive. You could clip the drive to your belt and have vertually unlimited shooting. Could you imagine in RAW mode seeing "14,000" in your "shots remaining" indicator? haha. ;)

Yea, they missed the boat with that one.

[lziering]

If one doesn't object to shooting in a tethered mode you can hook the camera to a computer using the supplier USB calbe and write images as you shoot directly to the computer's hard drive. You use the program called Remote Capture that came with the camera.

[soumya63]

kendersplace wrote:
You could clip the drive to your belt and have vertually unlimited shooting. Could you imagine in RAW mode seeing "14,000" in your "shots remaining" indicator? haha. ;)



Yes, that is what I am wishing.

Ideally my dream is a bluetooth wireless storage device with removable 2" harddrive complete with rechargeable Lithium battary which can be clipped to you belt or even put inside your camera bag. The camera will communicate with the storage wirelessly. If the storage is turned on, the camera will automatically detect this and push the images from the compact flash to the storage at its idle time. After a transfer confirmation from the storage, the Camera should clearup the space from the CF.

No it is not difficult to design this. Nor it should cost earth to mass produce such device. I believe something of this sort of storage will soon be released in the market. Maybe 20D will have this feature inbuilt, something like bulk film holder for early motordrive fitted SLR cameras.

http://www.mitraphoto.com

[Dan_mobile]

soumya63 wrote:
No it is not difficult to design this. Nor it should cost earth to mass produce such device. I believe something of this sort of storage will soon be released in the market. Maybe 20D will have this feature inbuilt, something like bulk film holder for early motordrive fitted SLR cameras.

http://www.mitraphoto.com


I agree that wireless and storage technology are in reach for everything you discuss. Nevertheless business is business, and until forcing actions such as competition, market demand, or return-on-investment (people willing to pay), I don’t see Canon or anyone else providing these technologies. I agree it would be totally cool to have Bluetooth or 802.11 wireless digital SLR. I even see support equipment such as remote strobe lighting, metering, etc., part of a total wireless studio all controlled with an RF LAN. But I believe we will wait a while … Dan
http://www.pettusphoto.com

[Jeppe]

The advantages with RAW is far more than with jpgs, so get some larger cards or an image-tank such as nixvue or X-drive. You relly dont want to pay 1500$ and shoot jpg's with it... thats a big waste of money...really..