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| Posted: Sat Jul 28th, 2018 15:10 |
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Robert
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I was reading earlier about someone who uses a WD external 2Tb drive with wi-fi to transmit images to his iPad for viewing, culling and processing. The images remain on the drive and are only sent to the iPad individually as required. They are not ingested into Photos and the whole process is quite slick. He uses a card reader built into the hard drive but I think it also works with a USB adaptor. Can't remember what the exact drive is but I don't think it's anything special. Could find out if anybody is interested.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28th, 2018 16:42 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:I was reading earlier about someone who uses a WD external 2Tb drive with wi-fi to transmit images to his iPad for viewing, culling and processing. I've got a WD Passport external 2TB drive with WiFi and it only has an SD card slot in it?? If you insert an SD card it transfers everything on the card blindly to a folder on the WD drive ....and it's not that quick! The MyCloud software app you have to download to see the drive contents is crude....or at least apple are their usual helpful selves ensuring file transfer isn't easily handled (as it means delving into the iPad file structure...which is prohibited!) From memory they don't allow selection of multiple files for transfer...you have to do one at a time. I use a File Transfer app to speed things up. Been disappointed with this idea of remote file handling. But maybe I am doing it wrong? I could use the D500 WiFi and send it direct to the iPad. But that uses camera battery power and takes time.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28th, 2018 16:57 |
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Robert
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Will PM you... I think that's the hardware, what you need is some third party software.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29th, 2018 06:15 |
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GeoffR
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jk wrote: Effects the D500, D850, D5 as this is meant to be the premium card to use. XQD cards are made by Sony, but in past also by Lexar. Kingston and Sandisk are considering whether they want to enter the market but I wouldn't hold my breath on this!. Existing stocks should be sufficient for cameras that are about.Affects the D4, D4s, D5, D500 and D850, so far but note that only the D5 does not have an option to use another type of card. This may well be great for the professional photographer buying a D5 new but will put off serious amateurs buying used unless the QZD, or CFExpress if it really is compatible, comes down in price. Upgrading from a D3 to a used D4 or D5 could be a very expensive business. The cameras are still expensive used, but affordable for someone who really wants one. However one must add to the price of the camera £200 for a spare battery, £30 for a battery door, £360 for some QXD cards and possibly more storage on a computer to accept the larger files. The D4 does at least allow the continued use of CF cards. I would love to have ZQD cards but I am reluctant to enrich Sony by several hundred pounds so I will wait and see if CFExpress comes to anything. Should I find myself in the position to purchase a D5 any time soon it will be with CF cards. That being said, if CFExpress or XQD come down in price I would want to go that way.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29th, 2018 07:08 |
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Robert
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GeoffR wrote:Affects the D4, D4s, D5, D500 and D850, so far but note that only the D5 does not have an option to use another type of card. This may well be great for the professional photographer buying a D5 new but will put off serious amateurs buying used unless the QZD, or CFExpress if it really is compatible, comes down in price. Could we sum that up by saying you are sitting on an aluminium (supposedly sterile) perch (fence)! LOL The financial implications of serious photography are high, nothing is cheap, I need more, better batteries for my D3 but not paying £900 for half a dozen new Nikon ones. For my winter night time photography I am planning a golf trolley power pack. Almost zero cost and far more power and reliability. It doesn't stop with the cards and batteries, the best lenses are extremely expensive. I have tried to collect a reasonable range of good old lenses which do the job well, they have limitations and snags but I find workarounds and accept the limitations. One thing I have accepted is, birding lenses are way beyond my means, I try to cover a wide range of photography so I have decided to pass on birding beyond 300mm on DX.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29th, 2018 07:41 |
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GeoffR
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Robert wrote: Could we sum that up by saying you are sitting on an aluminium (supposedly sterile) perch (fence)! LOL Pretty much says it really, I am happy with the D4 for now but batteries are stupidly expensive. I have a third party one and hopefully now that I have sorted out the standby delay (Previous owner had set it to 10 minutes which I misread as 10 seconds!) that will perform as expected and I will consider another one. The D3 has an external power socket but the D4 and D5, despite using the same mains power unit require a battery compartment adaptor, at around £160. I did think I had found a source of third party EN-EL4a batteries but it turns out they aren't available any more. I have sufficient for now so I'll not bother looking further.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 8th, 2018 15:29 |
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GeoffR
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Well, having found some XQD cards and a reader at I price I was prepared to pay I now have 2 x 32GB cards. They don't seem to make much difference in the camera but they download to my MacBook Pro, via USB3, very quickly indeed. I would still like the price to come down though.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 8th, 2018 17:48 |
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Robert
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What body is this for Geoff? By all accounts it really makes a difference with the very high high resolution bodies. Both to avoid the buffer filling up and buffer clearance of large NEF's. Same as all similar 'new' technologies they will be cheap as chips once the initial surge is over.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 9th, 2018 07:38 |
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GeoffR
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Robert wrote: What body is this for Geoff?I have a D4 and so far have taken around 90 images on the XQD card, hardly an exhaustive test.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 9th, 2018 07:52 |
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jk
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The D4 is down at 22MP or there abouts so the image size is relatively small compared to images from D850 or Z7 at 45MP. The larger the image size then the more important it becomes to transfer it quickly to the storage card and free up the buffer for the next shot(s).
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