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For me it has nothing to do with being a professional. It has to do with not needing 100 photos of the same bird standing, sitting , etc. Of a bird is about to fly, I will use pre-capture and/or take way too many shots when he continues to sit there.
Thanks Eric. I'm certain that I'll keep just a few shots from each day, but which ones are the issue. I can't look at that many and still get any sleep. Arthur is much better at this then I am, or will ever be, so I'll have to look at them when I'm not on the shoot. Prior to the Z9 this was much easier.
It's definitely a skill that needs to be learned and developed. With high volume's you have to take the approach that you are only selecting the ones to keep. If the image does not jump out due to composition, exposure, framing, and subject matter, it's not even a candidate. If you use a practical limit of 20-50 images from a day, you become pretty ruthless about discarding borderline images. I admit - that's not my approach. But for wildlife I do discard a very high percentage because there is so little value in anything but the best images.
Sadly, I too am being more selective about my shots, but I'm still blowing it out of the water with volume. I put a limit on my bursts and pay a lot more attention to framing and background, and then a little Sora Rail will come out to play or a Bobcat will walk by with its dinner. It feels sacrilege to complain about this "problem."
I must admit that I'm not really making money at this, and my eyes aren't sharp enough to know what's not good enough without a computer. I also don't pass up a potential shot, because it's not film and it might be the one. In the end, storage is cheap. Thanks.
This is my fastest card reader:
Wouldn't it be awesome to just plug the camera into a laptop with a LAN cable or really fast USB cable and copy directly to an external SSD? Just using the File Explorer. I'm trying to find out if this is possible now, but it turns out to be a hard question. Thanks for the words of wisdom.
Yeah, been going back/forth on this (size/weight is one concern) - another advantage to the laptop approach is that one can look at the images big screen - that way I could tell if my "skills" were resulting in sharp photos ;-)
I'm trying to find out if the Z9 will do a direct connection to a LAN cable or USB cable that might obviate the need for a reader. If so, and if fast, that would be ideal.
I have a 13" HP laptop that I really like. It is about 2.5-3 lbs. Previously I had an Asus that was good also.
I also opted for a light-weight laptop. My 17" Gram, which is awesome, weighs just 2.97 lbs. The 16" is about 2.4 lbs I think. Not cheap, but it's the best choice I've made (after many expensive mistakes).
remember that LAN is only 1Gb/s Ethernet, so lot slower than 10Gb/s USB readily available for card readers.
That Clouzen-tainer looks like a good idea. The price isn't bad either. I guess that I'd probably need some room on my Google Drive to use it, which would add a bit to the cost, but I could put a 4tb NVMe drive in the Basic unit. I think I need to look at the reliability. Thanks.
I appreciate the insight. Thanks.
Thank so much for the info. Didn't know about the USB speeds. Still, last night at 1AM I was watching the transfer at 25MB/s as it slowly drug on and on. It made great logic to help me find a better way. Both the LAN and the USB look a lot faster to me. If I could bypass the reader entirely and connect directly to the camera at those speeds, that seems like it would be a great method for this.
Thanks for the info. You've put some thought into this. I appreciate it.
