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Today’s tip is about digital camera card readers. Our favorite New Yorker – photographer David Bergman will share his insight on advantages of using card reader as oppose to connecting the camera directly to the computer.
David shares: “Card readers. What are they? And why use them? Ok.. you are done shooting and you want to copy your photos from your camera to your computer. You might think to use a USB cable and connect your camera directly to your computer and then uses software to copy the files over. But I am here to tell you that there is a better way!”
“Consider using a dedicated card reader they make them for all different card types that your camera might take. With the most popular being SD or CF. You simply, take the card out of your camera and insert into the reader, which is connected to your computer. The card reader will just pop up on your computer, like any external drive.”
“And you can copy your images however you want. So why is the card reader a better way to go? Well first of all unless there is a lot of extra room on your desk, it’s just awkward to hook your camera up to your computer. You definitely don’t want to drop that expensive piece of hardware. Another downside of using your camera, is that it drains your battery. I like to recharge my battery’s while I edit my images.. both figuratively and literally…”
“Also your asking for data corruption problems, if your battery dies in the middle of the copying process. If you go with a dedicated card reader, you will find the better one copy images much faster than using the camera. Speeding up the copying process, especially when you have thousands of images across multiple cards, saves a tonne of time. Which often equals money. And as for multiple cards, if you have more than one reader you can copy all those cards at the same time, you can’t do that with a camera.”
“And if your computer has hardware built in, then it’s a no brainer just to use that. At the end of the day, keep your USB you should still keep a USB cord handy as a back up. But if you invest in a dedicated card reader you will save time and potential aggravation every time you copy images to your computer.”
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