This can be one of those very painful lessons to learn if you do it the the hard way. That’s why it needs to be said.
Delete screen of a 5D mark II
When you delete your images “in camera” there is always the possibility that you could remove ALL the images off the memory chip. Since this is a possibility, I recommend to NEVER do it because once the images are deleted they can’t be recovered.
You are much better off to “copy” the image directly off the memory chip onto your computer to make sure you have copied every single bit of information that you can. All decent computers (I use apple products) have multiple ways of recovering files, even if they’ve been deleted, since in a way they really haven’t been deleted until you really say so. Once the photo files are saved on your computer, there is much less potential for wiping out all of your work. That’s not the case when you work from your camera to manage your photos.
Please take special note, I said to COPY the images and NOT MOVE. Depending on your system, MOVE is a very dangerous function. While copying files just transfers the bits, MOVE does a COPY first, then DELETES the files on the originating system. This is where things can and do go very wrong. If the COPY in the MOVE was not done correctly, the computer will still delete the files in the move…… Trust me on this folks… You don’t want to do this!
card reader and memory chip
Part 2 of this lesson is that when you copy your images off the memory chips, use card readers versus downloading the images through your camera. By copying the images through the camera, you are sending the images back through the camera processor, then though your computer processor, and finally onto the storage device. That is one too many processors for your images to go through since all you’re doing is copying from one storage device to another.
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