FPS: Pro Secrets To Better Keepers And Sharper Shots!

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I feel vindicated! Thank you Steve, this was a great video! I had thought that the only drawback for shooting at 20 - 30 fps was culling. I'm very methodical so I WANTED to look at each image. Now I know I don't NEED to look at each image. I think I can dig into those 50K photos I shot on my recent trip to Brazil.
 
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Bennvdm said:
Here is another culling method using fastrawviewer (much cheaper than Photomechanic at 25USD, but same idea) by Nasim Mansorov of Photographly Life. Current version unfortunately does not support Z8/Z9 HE & HE* raw files yet. Fast to review directly on card, delete moves files to a reject subfolder. Renders raw file preview much faster than lightroom and shows raw histogram and some nifty tools to judge over exposure, sharpness etc. It does not use the imbedded jpeg file, except if explicitly set to do so.

In lightroom, just import image folder without incl sub folders tick to excl rejects. Star ratings for post processing are imported from sidecar files.

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After doing a dive into FRV yesterday I agree with this recommendation and will add the following.

TWO TOOLS not present in LR - Focus Peaking, or edge and and fine details can help you compare sharpness between images; and the over and under exposure tools.

I personally would still copy all my images to a high speed MVNe external drive first. I don't like my computer writing to my memory cards.

The other thing I did with FRV yesterday is set up a shortcut to allow the mouse wheel to scroll images. If someone is interested I can post how here. Note that this allows you to do what Steve suggested which is look for interesting composition in a much speedier manner.

No longer do I look to remove rejects - just looking for the fewer winners.
 
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BarkingBeansCoffee said:
After doing a dive into FRV yesterday I agree with this recommendation and will add the following.

TWO TOOLS not present in LR - Focus Peaking, or edge and and fine details can help you compare sharpness between images; and the over and under exposure tools.

I personally would still copy all my images to a high speed MVNe external drive first. I don't like my computer writing to my memory cards.

The other thing I did with FRV yesterday is set up a shortcut to allow the mouse wheel to scroll images. If someone is interested I can post how here. Note that this allows you to do what Steve suggested which is look for interesting composition in a much speedier manner.

No longer do I look to remove rejects - just looking for the fewer winners.
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I thought I covered the two tools under my nifty features bit for focus and exposure checking bit…😂

I would not let the pc do any changes to an sd card, but feel much more confident on cfexpress as long as only formatted on a camera, as cfexpress a small form factor nvme drive with specialised firmware for peculiarities between the different camera brands and models firmware…. Nvme contains a soc cpu etc that does a lot more than just wear leveling found on sd cards. This includes speed throttling to manage temperature, drive health management and reporting etc.

The in camera format actually deletes and recreates the partition table on the drive with custom sector sizes (file allocation unit size per windows format) not available from my partition software on Windows11…. Quick format basically only deletes the index vs full format checks for bad blocks.

When you move a file etc, the physical data part remains unchanged and only the drive index portion is changed for the new wareabouts. I guess it mught be slightly different with usb nvme readers as likely depends on the reader And operating system of computer. Easy to test for your setup, just move a fairly large say 5GB+ video file from one folder to another. If instant, only index was changed. Other way takes the same time as making a copy…

You can actually buy cfexpress adapters at B&H to fit small form factor pc nvme drives to make a diy cfexpress card. I would not recommend this as pc firmware likely only optimised for pc and usb enclosures now that apple silicon is proprietary…
 
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Steve said:
Would anyone like a video that went into a little detail on culling? Maybe I could cull 1000 photos or something?
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That would be helpful to me, @Steve. I've always shot mass quantities of photos especially on bird shoots. My husband always asked me why I took so many photos when I ended up trashing a lot of them. My response was because you might miss something great because our reaction time from eye to brain to finger is usually slower than what we're watching.
 
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BarkingBeans Coffee said:
After doing a dive into FRV yesterday I agree with this recommendation and will add the following.

TWO TOOLS not present in LR - Focus Peaking, or edge and and fine details can help you compare sharpness between images; and the over and under exposure tools.

I personally would still copy all my images to a high speed MVNe external drive first. I don't like my computer writing to my memory cards.

The other thing I did with FRV yesterday is set up a shortcut to allow the mouse wheel to scroll images. If someone is interested I can post how here. Note that this allows you to do what Steve suggested which is look for interesting composition in a much speedier manner.

No longer do I look to remove rejects - just looking for the fewer winners.
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I am just starting to explore FRV so I would be grateful for any tips/shortcuts you have setup. :unsure:
 
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