The first thing to learn is that Canon can't write software. Once you accept that, and stop trying to use their "offerings" your life will drasticaly improve. As much as possible, I use my own software to do stuff, since it always tends to do exactly what I want it too, and never anything more.
I shoot straight RAW. I transfer the cr2 files onto a mac with a card reader. There I apple-A them all, and drag them once to dng converter, and once to photochop. Photoshop is told to save all the raws as jpegs, and the DNG converter is told to convert them all to dng. Sometime later I come back, and I transfer all the images to a FreeBSD machine. A simple shell script there sorts the jpegs and dngs into one tree (dp/YYYY/MM/DD) and the cr2 files into another tree (cr/YYYY/MM/DD). While it sorts them it creates a third tree (index/YYYY/MM/DD) of smaller (800 maxpixel) thumbnails, and a set of tiny (125 maxpixel) thumbsnails of the thumbnails. The dp and index trees are exposed on an http port inside my house. So when I'm at home I can use http to browse pictures by month or day and easily download the full sized jpeg or the dng file for any thumbnail I want. When I'm not at home I can use any internet connection to start an ssh tunnel to the internal web server. It is slow, but it means I don't need to slap two terabytes of disks into my laptop. Using an http link mak me feel safer too. The various trees of images are all read-only, and the additional layer of only having http access makes it even harder to overwrite an image. On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:16:29PM -0700, Ken Durling wrote: >OK, after working through a couple of jobs trying to keep track of >RAWS, converted RAWS, LF jpegs and lo-res jpeg samples to send to an >editor, I'm convinced of the utility of the dual file format >shooting mode. But it doesn't seem that the EOS utility will allow >these to be saved to different folders. Is there a way, or a 3rd >party piece of SW? What's your workflow with this? So in regard to your specific problem. If you use a mac, you can theoretically applescript your way to an automated solution. If you use a Windows box, I'd suggest either eating cyanide, or buying a mac. You could also write a batch script that you could manually invoke. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
