New Camera, new bird of the evening

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited February 4, 2005 in Wildlife
15271845-L.jpgAbove: Heron washing his dinner off, a huge fish.
Below: getting ready to fly.

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This whole thing would be better if I weren't having so much trouble with the camera. Can't upload the files........ and other problems that I can deal with, but I can't deal with doing the files in small thumbnails in zoombrowser (yes, zoom browser said there is a limit of 6). I take the CF card out of the camera, put it in san disk, upload to the computer, the F file which is the external hard drive, it does all that. But when I get to PS CS, PS swears there is nothing in the folder. I go back to the F drive and check, yes there are a lot of files in the folder.

We did install the driver for the camera and all, thought that might help. I tried just putting it in My Pictures in the C drive. That didn't work either.

So, I got these together in Zoom browzer, worked them up in PS and got them to you all. Tomorrow I will tell this story over again, I am stumped. We have added things like the external hard drive and had no problem. Once they are jpegs they do show up on PS CS.

The camera is great in that it does what it promised to do. It works. And fast. After dark, the camera kept functioning so I didn't know it was after dark, it got birds in the air et al. Too dark to show you all, but it felt very good to actually have the camera shoot when the bird was still there. And it turns right on. I have a lot of reading up to do. I left to go to the post office, it was drizzling, but I took my camera, got home later as usual, dreary day.

ginger
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2005
    Congratulations on the new camera
    Looks like it's working. You'll just have to take it all step by step and before you know it, it will be like second nature to you.

    Can't help with the computer problems, but I'm sure someone will be along soon to give some advice.
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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    Congratulations on the new camera
    Hi ginger,
    The first pic looks a little OOF. Sorry, just had to do that. :D
    The second one is great.
    Bummer that you're having trouble getting to your files. Like my husband says, " We can never "JUST" do anything." Why is it that everything has to be so difficult? I'm sure Andy or one of the guys can help you out. But, at least you can take pictures again. Look at the bright side.
    I can't wait to see your pictures. thumb.gif
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,249 moderator
    edited February 3, 2005
    Ginger, Just to try to understand the trouble better.... this F Drive you speak of where the photos reside.... Is PS CS looking for these photos on the card reader, an internal hard drive, or an external hard drive?
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    canon 20d driver
    ginger, if you install the canon 20d sw properly, there's going to be something called 'canon 20d wia driver' that gets installed. you need that, and then you can simply ue a card reader, $10 at any comp store, to copy and past e your files to your computer.

    cheers
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  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    Ginger I really like new first one very much.. did you use your new lens as well?? details please.. handheld? etc etc.. did you make a copy of cs for back up Ginge? or has it gone gone gone...:uhoh
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited February 3, 2005
    andy wrote:
    ginger, if you install the canon 20d sw properly, there's going to be something called 'canon 20d wia driver' that gets installed. you need that, and then you can simply ue a card reader, $10 at any comp store, to copy and past e your files to your computer.

    cheers
    what?! you don't need to install anything... i took a cd worth of files straight from Winger's 20d the other day. no problems on my computer at all.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    DoctorIt wrote:
    what?! you don't need to install anything... i took a cd worth of files straight from Winger's 20d the other day. no problems on my computer at all.

    there's soemthing with the driver that supports the raw thums in cs i think. i don't remember any more.

    anyway, i was only trying to help ginger, mebbe she ought not listen to me on this as i don't use the 20d anymore lol3.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    Lynn the way things are right now, I can't keep the RAW file. I either convert it to jpeg or I leave it as RAW, but not in PS CS. I have not decided how to resolve this. I think it could be in my little sandisk thingy that I upload with, or it could be the "pirated" cs which I doubt. I can't make phone calls, the cs people do have a good support system, but I can't hear well enough to use it unless Bill is here to interpret. He is working like day and night. Will be home a bit tonight, but the places to call will be closed, I think.

    That was cropped a bit, I do have a copy of that in jpeg, just was not into making psds last night after awhile, so I have a jpeg copy of that crop and a jpeg of the full photo.
    I put the camera on shutter priority, a rarity for me, but it was at 1/400 th sec f5.6, ISO 400, with the lens at 300 mm, crummy lens, just ordered a 300 f4, I would really like an extender, too.......will see how soon on that.

    The same feathers with the same lens seem much clearer with just the camera change. Oh, everything was handheld. I have soooo much to learn. There are circles to turn here, there and everywhere. And that is just a start.

    I do love it, after I got over the klunk sound it makes, I think it does, I don't know.

    ginger
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    it has nothing to do with cs ginger... btw have you updated the adobe camera raw? you can go to adobe.com support or download site, and download the newest version of acr... that may help you.

    for copying files, you should be able to see your cf card as an external drive... what i normally do is copy and pastte them to a drive on my computer... then i open the raws up in photoshop. edit as you have been doing wtih your rebel raws.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    andy wrote:

    for copying files, you should be able to see your cf card as an external drive... what i normally do is copy and pastte them to a drive on my computer... then i open the raws up in photoshop. edit as you have been doing wtih your rebel raws.
    I tried to download it awhile back, did not know if it worked, don't remember why or what, may try that again.

    I do what you do. I upload on the sandisk thingy, to san disk, G drive, then select all and move them to F drive (Maxtor external) (that isn't the problem, though, as I tried uploading some to My Pictures on C drive, didn't work either), then F drive as My Pictures, Maxtor, no problem.............until now. And I didn't have to do anything strange either.

    I could call Canon, when Bill is here. I will probably calm down as the day goes by, it was just a surprise, and when I get my teeth into something....

    Thanks, ginger (Oh, and I used two different CF cards)
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited February 3, 2005
    andy wrote:
    there's soemthing with the driver that supports the raw thums in cs i think. i don't remember any more.

    anyway, i was only trying to help ginger, mebbe she ought not listen to me on this as i don't use the 20d anymore lol3.gif
    nope, doubt it's that either... when i took those 20d files from winger, I only had ACR 2.3 plugin (2.4 is out now) and no 20d drivers... everything still worked fine in PS. Ginger's problem is weird, don't think I get it.
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  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited February 3, 2005
    Love the pics Ginger ^5
    That GBH washing his lunch is super thumb.gif

    You might be having the same problems I had trying to upload pics from the cam to my puter. I just couldn't get the RAW files. I not only couldn't get them to upload, out of the camera, I couldn't even see them using Windows. I had to call 911 (Andy's number lol3.gif ) and he gave me the same advice as he did to you. What really helped was loading and opening the Canon EVU (viewer utility) application. Since I don't have a cardreader (never used one before, don't see why I need to use one now) the only way I can upload RAW files is to open EVU, turn on the camera and use EVU to upload all image files to my Windows folder.

    Works like a charm, as long as you remember to open EVU, before powering up the cam :D

    Good luck,
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2005
    Excellent
    Hey Ginger,

    Those are two excellent pics. The problems you are having now will sort themselves out.

    Now get out there with that new camera and have some fun.

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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited February 4, 2005
    Hi Ginger,
    I LOVE that new "first picture". The bird is sharp, his dinner is bright and sharp. The reflection is AWSOME. The whole thing is super, super, super. thumb.gif

    How do you like my new avatar. I was playing with self portraits. :D
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