From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas
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Transferring data
- Once the cards get full, you need to go ahead an get them into the computer. Now, maybe it's still in the camera so pop it out or take it out of your card wallet in any case. I recommend that you go ahead and connect it to a fast reader. I prefer USB 3 these days, but you will find thunderbolt readers on occasion or maybe you have an older system and take advance of FireWire 800. In any case, get the fastest card reader you can find. Using the built in slot on the laptop is often a lot slower. Same holds true for desktop computers. I find that the highest quality ones, that are usually external readers, are significantly faster. Carefully take the card and mount it making sure that you line it up on the slot and push it in. At this point, the card will become mounted. There is my card and you see that I've got a DCIM folder and inside of that a camera specific folder. Now, many people just grab the individual images but I'm a bigger fan of taking it all the way at the DCIM level…
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