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ziggy53

Allen wrote: »

... (age allows this as you don't care how you
look anymore, see avatar ) ...

Wait 'till you get to be my age.

I tell everybody I'm 186 years old when they ask my age because "you're only as old as you feel", and 186 feels about right. A church lady told me I "... don't look a day over 120" (years old).

TangoJuliet

divamum wrote: »

TangoJuliet, have you used the spot focus feature yet? Sounds like that's what you're doing in manual.

It wasn't me, it was Allen.

Allen

ziggy53 wrote: »

Wait 'till you get to be my age.

I tell everybody I'm 186 years old when they ask my age because "you're only as old as you feel", and 186 feels about right. A church lady told me I "... don't look a day over 120" (years old).

I tell everyone I'm only 39 and a few months ..... 344

... and I use the smallest spot with the inner square, expanded.

slimtheartist

problem with my 7D when i wanna transfer big files
hi all,

I just bought a Canon 7D with 2 memory cards SanDisk 16 GB Extreme 60MB / s UDMA and Kingston 32GB/133X, my problem is the following:

I just can not transfer video files that exceed 1'30" i have the same problem with the 2 cards ...
when I read the movies files on the camera, they work normally, but from the moment I want to make a transfer from the camera to my computer via the USB cable ..... Windows always copy an empty file with 0Ko ..

is this a problem of USB cable or a problem of synchronization between the PC and memory cards ???

Can anyone help me to solve this problem !??

thx

Awais Yaqub

slimtheartist wrote: »

hi all,

I just bought a Canon 7D with 2 memory cards SanDisk 16 GB Extreme 60MB / s UDMA and Kingston 32GB/133X, my problem is the following:

I just can not transfer video files that exceed 1'30" i have the same problem with the 2 cards ...
when I read the movies files on the camera, they work normally, but from the moment I want to make a transfer from the camera to my computer via the USB cable ..... Windows always copy an empty file with 0Ko ..

is this a problem of USB cable or a problem of synchronization between the PC and memory cards ???

Can anyone help me to solve this problem !??

thx

Never experienced this issue
Are you using Canon EOS utility that comes with 7D to transfer files?

slimtheartist

Awais Yaqub wrote: »

Never experienced this issue
Are you using Canon EOS utility that comes with 7D to transfer files?

nope i never use it u think this is the problem !?

Dan7312

Some things to try...

Have you tried taking the card out of your camera and using a card reader in you machine to read it?

Did you format the card in the camera before you used it?

slimtheartist wrote: »

hi all,

is this a problem of USB cable or a problem of synchronization between the PC and memory cards ???


thx

slimtheartist

Dan7312 wrote: »

Some things to try...

Have you tried taking the card out of your camera and using a card reader in you machine to read it?

Did you format the card in the camera before you used it?

yes i format the 2 cards in the camera, but i don't have a card reader yet, that's why i wanna be sure that's the problem to buy one .

Awais Yaqub

slimtheartist wrote: »

nope i never use it u think this is the problem !?

Why not try that

roakey

slimtheartist wrote: »

nope i never use it u think this is the problem !?

I never use video, so I can't speak from experience, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that you HAVE to use the Canon utility to transfer video.

Roak

ziggy53

My Canon 5D MKII creates MOV video files up to 4GB in file size. You need at least a 32 bit OS to copy the files onto a computer. I always use a card reader to transfer the files.

waygard33

roakey wrote: »

I never use video, so I can't speak from experience, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that you HAVE to use the Canon utility to transfer video.

Roak

I just transferred several movie files, many over the minute and 1/2 length. I usually use my built in card reader (fast) but it's broken so I've just been using the cable (slow). I don't use the Canon utility. Simply drag and drop in Explorer. Never had a problem with any length video file. I've done this with XP and lately with Windows 7.

Wayne in Oregon

OnlyElise

waygard33 wrote: »

I just transferred several movie files, many over the minute and 1/2 length. I usually use my built in card reader (fast) but it's broken so I've just been using the cable (slow). I don't use the Canon utility. Simply drag and drop in Explorer. Never had a problem with any length video file. I've done this with XP and lately with Windows 7.

Wayne in Oregon

I'm not sure if you're still dealing with the broken card reader, but I thought I'd throw in that you can get separate card-readers that plug into your USB port from Best Buy and a few other places. May make your work faster!