A question I have been meaning to ask for ages. What software do people use to download their pictures to and how do you store/ and later view them? I ask because we have a chromebook now after our last laptop got so old . I have literally hundred of pics on my cameras current card and need to move them off and have something to view them on. My camera is a Nikon DS500 the Nikon software doesn't work on chrome. Not sure what to get that won't be obsolete in 5min and unreadable by anything newer.
I would guess that it depends on the main platform people use. I use a laptop running Linux (Fedora Core) and use a tool called Shotwell. To download, I run Shotwell and put the camera card in my laptop's card reader and simply import new photos. I tag (a brief text descriptor ) the photos (Shotwell sorts them by date and allows event tagging). I then also store my 'media' on a NAS (basically a mini computer with loads of disc space built for serving (viewing / playing media from other devices) media) and can then view the photos from my TV,phone. Both the NAS and my laptop use Minidlna as the media server - and my TV and AV received use DLNA to show/play media..
My dear dafter uploads her photos to Google, but I have an aversion to uploading stuff to something outside my control. My way runs the risk of losing my media should I have a catastrophy at home, her way is open to hacks, companies going bust or charging for services etc.
We both have Nikon DS cameras (but she's a far better photographer - I'm just a snapper).
@Allotment Boy - I had to get a new laptop recently as the old one died. Still using Chrome and I just use the editor it has on it. It doesn't have enough capacity for all my photos though, so I got one of those expansion hard drive doofers* which just plugs in to the new one, and I transferred the photos onto that from the old laptop.
Yesterday I went to RHS Bridgewater and photographed the Waterlilies in infrared, 850nm. I love the way that the reflected sky is very dark, so you can make the water look completely black. This eliminates all distractions and adds drama, so it is an ideal subject for IR.
I grow Rhodiola Rosea .... I have it in a large planter and it's doing really well. I bought it several years ago when we visited Bide a Wee nursery in Northumberland.
I can send you some seeds @wild edges .... it has finished flowering now, but seeds won't be fully ripened just yet. Let me know if you'd like some.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Made the most of the dry sunny weather and went out yesterday [Friday] to one of my favourite hills - An Caisteal at Crianlarich. The cuckoos were calling when I reached the the lower slopes, but I couldn't pick them up on the video when I tried to do it - too far away. I'd set off early to try and beat the heat for getting up to the ridge. Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy! 90 minutes in and you're at the col, and onto the ridge [Twistin' Hill] heading for the summit - and most importantly - there was a nice breeze!
Looking back over Sron Garbh towards some of the Dalmally and Tyndrum hills Heading the right way- to Caisteal's little 'turret' in the distance. It's not the summit, but provides a nice little scrambly bit 5 minutes before the summit itself
A couple of the locals - more about them later....
Ben Lomond in the distance, from the summit plateau
Ben More and Stob Binnein, with it's lovely whaleback ridge, and the other pair of Crianlarich hills in front of them - Cruach Ardrain and Beinn Tulaichean
An Caisteal's partner - Beinn a Chroin, which is reached by the little ridge on the right, and then a nice wee scramble up to B. a Chroin's ridge leading to the summit, far left. I'd considered carrying on to do it as well, but you drop down into the glen from near that summit, and the thought of schlepping back the full length of the glen in that heat meant it was a no brainer for me.
The turret from the summit, with the Orchy hills in the background. Beinn Dorain in the middle
I realised when nearly back at the car that Mr Trump must have been visiting, and had left something behind....
Near the turret, I met a girl with her sheepdog and had a nice chat with her. They were out gathering the sheep off the hills, which isn't easy when you consider the size of the area and the terrain, especially in that heat. I tried to get a video, but I couldn't position myself well enough. Once I was nearly back down though, I could see her and her partner and a few others, plus several sheepdogs, up ahead and getting them all safely rounded up, onto and along the track. Further on, I got a little video. You can see the girl in the foreground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM3IxwuGh5Y It was about 2.5 hours from when I first met her, to seeing them at the foot of the hill, but they'd clearly been out for a good while, so probably the same length of time as me doing the hill - around four/five hours. A little paddle in the river would have been a good idea for the dogs at least!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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My camera is a Nikon DS500 the Nikon software doesn't work on chrome. Not sure what to get that won't be obsolete in 5min and unreadable by anything newer.
* this one :
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9494459?clickSR=slp:term:seagate expansion:1:55:1
It's already gone up i price since I got it
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This roughly shows the area
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/maps/map1_7ll.shtml
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I grow Rhodiola Rosea .... I have it in a large planter and it's doing really well.
I bought it several years ago when we visited Bide a Wee nursery in Northumberland.
I can send you some seeds @wild edges .... it has finished flowering now, but seeds won't be fully ripened just yet.
Let me know if you'd like some.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I'd set off early to try and beat the heat for getting up to the ridge. Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy! 90 minutes in and you're at the col, and onto the ridge [Twistin' Hill] heading for the summit - and most importantly - there was a nice breeze!
Looking back over Sron Garbh towards some of the Dalmally and Tyndrum hills
Heading the right way- to Caisteal's little 'turret' in the distance. It's not the summit, but provides a nice little scrambly bit 5 minutes before the summit itself
A couple of the locals - more about them later....
Ben Lomond in the distance, from the summit plateau
Ben More and Stob Binnein, with it's lovely whaleback ridge, and the other pair of Crianlarich hills in front of them - Cruach Ardrain and Beinn Tulaichean
An Caisteal's partner - Beinn a Chroin, which is reached by the little ridge on the right, and then a nice wee scramble up to B. a Chroin's ridge leading to the summit, far left. I'd considered carrying on to do it as well, but you drop down into the glen from near that summit, and the thought of schlepping back the full length of the glen in that heat meant it was a no brainer for me.
The turret from the summit, with the Orchy hills in the background. Beinn Dorain in the middle
I realised when nearly back at the car that Mr Trump must have been visiting, and had left something behind....
Near the turret, I met a girl with her sheepdog and had a nice chat with her. They were out gathering the sheep off the hills, which isn't easy when you consider the size of the area and the terrain, especially in that heat. I tried to get a video, but I couldn't position myself well enough. Once I was nearly back down though, I could see her and her partner and a few others, plus several sheepdogs, up ahead and getting them all safely rounded up, onto and along the track. Further on, I got a little video. You can see the girl in the foreground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM3IxwuGh5Y
It was about 2.5 hours from when I first met her, to seeing them at the foot of the hill, but they'd clearly been out for a good while, so probably the same length of time as me doing the hill - around four/five hours. A little paddle in the river would have been a good idea for the dogs at least!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...