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Sometimes you need to download images from several different cameras on the same computer e.g. if several members of a family each have a digital camera or a professional photographer who has more than one camera. This section suggests different ways that Downloader Pro can download images to the right places automatically.
Suggestions for when several people download their images on the same computer
Lets suppose Bob has a Canon PowerShot G7 and Mary has a Nikon Coolpix 5700 and they both want to download their images on to the same computer. They want to store the images on the same hard disk but they also want to be able to easily tell each other's pictures apart. Here are some suggestions for how to do this:
| 1. | Downloader Pro stores settings for each user and so one method would be for Bob and Mary to have separate user accounts and setup their own personal settings. |
| 2. | Since Bob and Mary use different camera models the download directory could use the camera model name to separate their images. The token {T1} translates to "G7" for pictures from Bob's Canon PowerShot G7 and "E5700" for pictures from Mary's Nikon Coolpix 5700. They could specify the download path as C:\Photos\{T1}\{Y}-{m}-{D} so that pictures are downloaded to directories like: |
C:\Photos\G7\2006-11-04
C:\Photos\E5700\2006-11-04
| 3. | An alternative to option 2 above is to use the camera mapping setting in preferences to map the camera model name to something more meaningful e.g. map "Canon PowerShot G7" to "Bob" and "E5700" to "Mary". Then use {T8} to include the mapped value in the download directory. They could specify the download path as C:\Photos\{T8}\{Y}-{m}-{D} so that pictures are downloaded to directories like: |
C:\Photos\Bob\2006-11-04
C:\Photos\Mary\2006-11-04
Please see the camera mapping preference settings for more details.
Suggestions for one photographer with more than one camera
A professional photographer may have several different cameras and use them to cover an event such as a wedding. When they download the images they want to be able to be able to identify which camera took which picture and also avoid duplicate filenames. There are a number of ways Downloader Pro can help:
| 1. | Use the {T1} token to extract the camera model from the shooting data and use it to prefix the filename e.g. the cameras might be a Nikon D2X and a Nikon D200. The filename could be specified as "{T1}_{o}" ({T1} for the camera model and {o} for the original filename on the memory card) and this would give filenames like D2X_DSC_0001.JPG and D200_DSC_0001.JPG |
| 2. | Option 1 doesn't help if the cameras are the same model. If the cameras are Canon digital SLRs or recent Nikon digital SLRs the camera serial number could be used instead. e.g. if the cameras are both Canon EOS 30D's the filename could be specified as "{c}_{o}" ({c} extracts the camera's serial number from the shooting data) and this would give filenames like 0130100302_IMG_0001.JPG and 0230104671_IMG_0001.JPG. |
| 3. | Option 2 is OK, but it does result in long filenames with aren't very meaningful. An alternative is to use the camera mapping setting in preferences to map the camera model name and serial number to something more meaningful e.g. map "Canon EOS 30D serial # 0130100302" to "30D1" and "Canon EOS 30D serial # 0230104671" to "30D2". Then use {T8} to include the mapped value in the filename e.g. "{T8}_{o}" which would give filenames like 30D1_IMG_0001.JPG and 30D2_IMG_0001.JPG. |
This technique can also be used with other cameras provided they allow you to specify a user comment in the camera which is added to each image. For example the user comments for two Nikon D200 cameras could be set to "(c) John Smith, camera #1" and "(c) John Smith, camera #2" and provided the comments are not the same different mappings for {T8} can be setup for each camera.
Please see the camera mapping preference settings for more details.
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