Slow download

[OldFox]

Canon 10D + 1 Gb IBM Microdrive + Downloader Pro 1.0 (Breeze):

It took about 25 minutes to download 82 raw images. I find this quite slow.

Why is it so slow?

a) 10D
b) 1 Gb IBM Microdrive
c) Downloader Pro
d) combination of a/b/c
e) my "old" 800 Mhz pc
f) or what

[elm54]

Hiya.
You didn't mention what OS you are using. but I would bet it is the "old 800" . I have a 866 P3 and find it quite slow in PS 6 to run actions. I also use a Mac duall 800 and am happy with its speed but I do use a firewire cf reader.On both machines I use a finder or window to dump the files onto my HD.(no program) I notice that on the mac usb can be slow .My biggest cf card is 256mb and usb is kinda slow I dumped 3 full 256 cards and it took around 10-15 minutes using the firewire reader. to the mac. I haven't used my pc for awhile because the mac is better,in my opinion :p . I guess we both need faster pc's ;)
good luck
Eric

[OldFox]

I am running a 800 Mhz pc with 765 Mb memory and WIN98SE and about 25 Gb free disk space.

Downloading the raw images from G2 was faster (I think, I do not have hard data). It was the same IBM 1 Gb microdrive + older version Breeze Downloader.

[Roger_Cavanagh]

The bottlenecks are more likely the camera and the USB interface. DL Pro is certainly not slower than DL on my PC.

You should get improved performance using a card reader, but USB won't get any better.

I expect G2 files would be much smaller than 10D ones, so that comparison isn't valid.

Regards,