Need help fast!

[DangerDave]

I'm getting ready to go to a huge car event in Norwalk,OH that is about 3 or 4 hour drive.

My desktop is down(which is were all my software is) until I get a bios chip sometime later this afternoon, I might be gone before then.

Right now I would like to clear all my flash cards, but there are RAW formatted pictures on there and I don' know what program I can use.

I need something that is free and download able just to take the RAW pictures off my flash cards and save them onto the computer and then convert then later.

[elysium]

Quickest and easiest way I know without any complications. Head to a friends and dump data from your cards with a friend for the day. Pick them up when you computer is fixed.

[TheHoff]

Why do you have to convert them? Can you just copy them to your machine that works?

[DangerDave]

Quickest and easiest way I know without any complications. Head to a friends and dump data from your cards with a friend for the day. Pick them up when you computer is fixed.

I have a laptop I can use but with no software. So I would like to just put all the pictures on the laptop and then mess with them later.

Why do you have to convert them? Can you just copy them to your machine that works?

I don't know, can I? When I plug in my camera and the windows wizard or whatever come ups, when if copies if doesn't show any RAW pictures.

If you can show me how that would great.

And thanks guys for super fast responses.

[TheHoff]

Plug in your camera, when the box comes up and asks what you'd like to do, say "Show the files in Explorer" -- or just explore your computer with the camera plugged in. You should be able to see the camera as a drive.

Drag the file to your hard drive and it will copy everything over. You can then re-copy it back to the card and import it on your main PC when you have time.

[DangerDave]

Plug in your camera, when the box comes up and asks what you'd like to do, say "Show the files in Explorer" -- or just explore your computer with the camera plugged in. You should be able to see the camera as a drive.

Drag the file to your hard drive and it will copy everything over. You can then re-copy it back to the card and import it on your main PC when you have time.

LMAO, I don't know why I didn't think of this, I guess I'm just really busy and excited.

And again thanks fellas.

[René Damkot]

Plug in your camera,

Not entirely sure, since I use a Mac, but I've seen quite a few threads where the CR2 files weren't recognised unless the Raw codec was installed on the PC....

So, I'd double check, or rather use a card reader...

[TheHoff]

Ah well I didn't mean he should do anything with them, just copy them over. It shouldn't matter if they are known or not, right? Files are files. Or maybe they wouldn't appear on the camera's drive?

[Nouks]

Ah well I didn't mean he should do anything with them, just copy them over. It shouldn't matter if they are known or not, right? Files are files. Or maybe they wouldn't appear on the camera's drive?

Quite a few years ago, when I was still struggling with this crap, when my computer finally recognized my camera, when all the right software finally was installed, the Canon software thought it could better convert all the RAW's directly into JPG's. Since that was with one of my first RAW experiences, I had shot in both RAW and JPG. Software decided to convert the files and then I had every file twice (IMG_0830.JPG, IMG_0830 copy 1.JPG or something like that).

No, I didn't tell the software to convert.

Since I started using a card reader I've never had this problem again.

[number six]

Quite a few years ago, when I was still struggling with this crap, when my computer finally recognized my camera, when all the right software finally was installed, the Canon software thought it could better convert all the RAW's directly into JPG's. Since that was with one of my first RAW experiences, I had shot in both RAW and JPG. Software decided to convert the files and then I had every file twice (IMG_0830.JPG, IMG_0830 copy 1.JPG or something like that).

No, I didn't tell the software to convert.

Since I started using a card reader I've never had this problem again.

Actually, that's a known bug in Windows XP when connecting directly to the camera and using Windows Explorer to copy RAW+JPEG. When I say "using Win Exp" I include dragging/dropping from the desktop, which also uses Win Exp.

As you found, a card reader eliminates the problem. Using ZoomBrowser does too.


-js

[Nouks]

Actually, that's a known bug in Windows XP when connecting directly to the camera and using Windows Explorer to copy RAW+JPEG. When I say "using Win Exp" I include dragging/dropping from the desktop, which also uses Win Exp.

As you found, a card reader eliminates the problem. Using ZoomBrowser does too.


-js

Hmmm not in my case I think. I believe I tried downloading the photos with some kind of software I got with the camera. Windows Explorer didn't even see my camera as an extern harddisk back then, but the software did see it. And it was the software (really don't know which: I think it's around 4 years ago) which converted it all...