downloading raw files

[biggin]

What seems to be the fastest way to download raw files to you? I have a card reader built into my pc but it seems to me it is quicker to download the photos right out of the camera. I have tried several different programs to download with such as canons eos utility, canons camera window through zoombrowser and adobe downloader with elements. I end up with the same result, it is quicker when I leave the card in the camera as to using the built in card reader.Any similar experiences or could there be something wrong with my card reader or the settings to the card reader? Any help would be appreciated!

[EOS_JD]

I d/l to Epson P-2000. Takes under 7 minutes to d/l 1Gb to the P-2000 hard drive. I then transfer by USB to my PCs hard drive which takes another minute or two.

I find it saves time as my card reader seems very slow! UltraII CF card (just in case someone thinks it's a slow card)!

[fivegallon]

What seems to be the fastest way to download raw files to you? I have a card reader built into my pc but it seems to me it is quicker to download the photos right out of the camera. I have tried several different programs to download with such as canons eos utility, canons camera window through zoombrowser and adobe downloader with elements. I end up with the same result, it is quicker when I leave the card in the camera as to using the built in card reader.Any similar experiences or could there be something wrong with my card reader or the settings to the card reader? Any help would be appreciated!

me thinks your in-built card reader may have issues
seems quite a few folks around here use external or in-built card readers in preference over directly connecting to the camera
for me...i use my in-built card-reader on my laptop. it's waaayyyyy quicker than direct connect to camera (btw - i d/l mine using zoom-browser)

[tim]

Get a USB2 card reader, and try DIM from alanlight.com

[Palladium]

Get a USB2 card reader, and try DIM from alanlight.com

or get a Firewire Compact flash reader ;)

[biggin]

Get a USB2 card reader, and try DIM from alanlight.com
Tim, wouldn't my card reader in my new pc be a usb2? what about my camera the 20d, does it use usb2.0 for its connection to the pc. Are the built in card readers slower than using the camera itself to download photos?

[lostdoggy]

I use a cheapy $9.99 usb2 Card reader w/ CaptureOne S/W and it DLs a 2GB card in under 10 Min. Since I'm using a 300d DL thru camera would take forever and a day.
You don't have to use any sw to dl the images from your card reader explorer would do just fine. Just create a folder and drag and drop. The reason why it seems to take a long time might not be the DL but the generating the thumbnail images.

[biggin]

I use a cheapy $9.99 usb2 Card reader w/ CaptureOne S/W and it DLs a 2GB card in under 10 Min. Since I'm using a 300d DL thru camera would take forever and a day.
You don't have to use any sw to dl the images from your card reader explorer would do just fine. Just create a folder and drag and drop. The reason why it seems to take a long time might not be the DL but the generating the thumbnail images.
would drag and drop be faster than dowloading thru say zoombrowser,where it seems to download one photo at a time

[lostdoggy]

I don't know of any sw that transfer file more then one file at a time. Its just a matter of how fast the connection and how fast your HDD and its subsystem can handle the transfer. I just recently upgraded from a Pentium Celeron 2.8GHz to a Pentium D 805 2.66 Ghz running the same on the memory but with a 250GB SATA HDD & a 300GB PATA Ultra 16 HDD and the transfer speed is significant.