Tranferring images from the new-to-me D-500 to my computer
Feb 9, 2021 14:30:51 #
Feb 9, 2021 15:14:27 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
gvarner wrote:
The cable is just a standard USB cable if you need one.
No, it's really not. It has a special USB-3 connector on the camera end.
Feb 9, 2021 15:45:54 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
larryepage wrote:
No, it's really not. It has a special USB-3 connector on the camera end.
Yes it really is. We went from USB 1 to USB 2 to USB 3 and USB 3 includes a few variants. They are ALL standard USB 3 cables.
When you buy a camera you ought to know that it is NOT a simple device like a knife and fork set. So just after you unpack it the FIRST thing you do is hunt online for a user manual. As others point out the manual tells you where the cable slot is. Seeing as how you don't appear to have a cable with it you then hunt online for the correct cable.
A card reader is many times faster than transferring by cable.
Removing the card and inserting into a card reader does have a potential downside in that you you will get some wear and tear of the contact pins. But using the cable only also has downsides in that you can slog out the cable sockets. Which is worse or most likely to fail first ? My experience has been that it is the cable socket. The cards do have side guides to make sure they go in straight. With the cable it is more easily possible to insert them at angles which will eventually cause socket failure. However whichever method you use as long as you are careful you should get a long life. But if you are a bull in a china shop person you will get failures earlier. Do not underestimate the number of bull in a china shop people that there are out there.
Feb 11, 2021 02:29:56 #
I bought a card reader for the sd 2 cards and cf-express before my d500 arrived last week costed 60.00 but is aluminum and had a great rating. unlikely to find that in adesk top or laptop and its way faster than fron the camera.
Feb 11, 2021 03:28:58 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
This is just personal experience that does include selling for about 20 years laptops and PCs with internal card readers. Although they are convenient they had a failure rate about 10 times that of separate plugin card readers. Some of the failures were caused by the designers using cheap chip-sets that wouldn't work with later devices. So you ended up having to use a separate card reader anyway because no way could you source/or afford the labor cost of replacing the inbuilt ones. It took me about 3-4 years before I just refused to have anything to do with builtin card readers.
Feb 13, 2021 10:26:10 #
There is no need to remove either of the memory cards.
On the left side of the camera there are three slots covered by flexible covers. THe top one is for the insertion of an HDMI to USB cable. Go get one if you don't own one. Insert one end into that slot and the other into the USB slot in your computer. TUrn the camera on and open the File Explorer. Look for "This PC" and click on it. You will see the Nikon D500 icon among the options on your screen. Select it and follow the choices. You will see all the photos in each of your two slots. You can take it from there.
On the left side of the camera there are three slots covered by flexible covers. THe top one is for the insertion of an HDMI to USB cable. Go get one if you don't own one. Insert one end into that slot and the other into the USB slot in your computer. TUrn the camera on and open the File Explorer. Look for "This PC" and click on it. You will see the Nikon D500 icon among the options on your screen. Select it and follow the choices. You will see all the photos in each of your two slots. You can take it from there.
Feb 13, 2021 11:46:14 #
Overthehill1 wrote:
Wow, do I feel dumb. Got this camera over the week... (show quote)
Get an XQD card reader which is faster and easier to transfer your photos.
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