Introduction

A while back I wrote an article describing my workflow with the tools I used for the Canon EOS D30 at the time. My camera has changed and so have the tools, so I've decided to prepare a new article, My requirements haven't really changed that much. This is what I write in the earlier article:

"I need a process that let's me create images for display in my web gallery, store in local 'albums' to show friends, print a few select pictures, archive original files."

More of my images end up in my web galleries than anywhere else, so I'll use that process as the focus for my description.

Download images files from camera

There is very little need to tether the 10D to the PC. It was necessary with the D30 to change parameters, set the correct date and time, but, with the 10D, that can be done using the in-camera menus. So it's out of the camera with the microdrive and into the card reader.

I have upgraded to Breeze Systems new Downloader Pro 1.0. This seems to be every bit as reliable and even more useful than Downloader (no longer available). One of the biggest changes in DL Pro is the increased flexibility for naming target folders and renaming image files. Here is the File>Preferences>Download Path screen. You can see how camera and image specific tokens can be used within folder and image names: Click for screenshot of DL Pro Preferences

I upload images to the PC, as you can see, into folders for individual days. For archiving I collapse these into months with an occasional "special event".

For me the biggest change with DL Pro is renaming files as they are copied to the PC. Previously, this would have been a separate step using BreezeBrowser, so that a nice efficiency improvement.

Read my review of Downloader Pro.