Extracting DNG files from the M8 via USB.

[Keith]

I realised after getting home the other night having shot over three hundred images at a gallery opening gig that my card reader is not compatable with the 4GB SDHC card I used for the first time ... it took me a while to figure out what the hell was going on and for one horrible moment I thought my evening had been totally wasted! 😱

I can't into the big smoke to get the correct reader for a few days and I was planning on working on the files this weekend. I've never used the USB cable to extract DNG's from the camera as I read it's not a good practice but in this case it could save me a few days of unproductive time.

However ... when I connected the camera via USB the files were showing as tifs ... at this stage I stopped the process and gave it a miss. Can someone clarify the procedure more precisely for me or should I just wait until I get the correct reader?

 

[spikey]

I found the same thing on a windows computer - but the files are DNG, just the OS names them wrong. SO you could import them and rename them on the PC, or just work with the wrongly named ones (CS2 I sued had no problem with that)
cheers
H.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

It seems to be a well-known "feature" with Windoze XP only.

 

[sepiareverb]

On my Mac I couldn't find anything on the card if I shot DNG only when the camera was tethered- it was just not there. Using the card reader fixed that.