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Uploading pics from SD card from DSLR

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willyt

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This has probably been covered before, but I'm probably using the wrong search terms.

I have a Nikon D50 that I travel with. I also tend to bring along my 17" HP laptop. Which is huge.

The Galaxy Tab 3 is a mighty nice piece of gear, and it would match nicely with my Note 2, since they both use the same OS.

What I'm curious about is who makes a really good adapter that'll plug into the Micro USB port that will allow me to upload pics from an SD card onto the Tab? I'd really like to start leaving my laptop at home when I travel internationally, it just gets to be too much.

Failing that, would a USB to Micro USB adapter work with a Nikon, plugging the camera directly into the Tab? Anyone ever tried? I'd like to keep that as sort of a last-resort option, as the speeds are a fraction of what you can get by reading the card directly, rather than through the camera.

Not only would it be really, really nice to have backups of the pictures I take, I could then (assuming I could find a killer wifi hotspot) transfer them up to Dropbox. Or a private server, whichever.

The specific Tab I'm looking at is the GT-P5210ZWYXAR. I think. God forbid they should use a part number that's easy to understand.
 
If your DSLR has a USB cable for to connect as USB drive to PC you might not need even a card reader. Might worth to try the DSLR with its USB cable to connect directly to the tablet's USB OTG cable :)

Harry
 
Harry2 said:
If your DSLR has a USB cable for to connect as USB drive to PC you might not need even a card reader. Might worth to try the DSLR with its USB cable to connect directly to the tablet's USB OTG cable :)

Harry
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It sure does. I only ask about the card reader for 2 reasons:

1) It's much, much faster when the card doesn't have to transfer through the camera
2) Won't waste the camera battery. I have multiple batteries, but still.

Also, love the Black Forest, beautiful scenery! Assuming it's the Black Forest in Germany...only one I've been to :D

So, as it stands right now, the Tab 3 should be able to read (and hopefully transfer) from an SD card, whether it be from the camera or a card reader.
 
willyt said:
... Also, love the Black Forest, beautiful scenery! Assuming it's the Black Forest in Germany...only one I've been to :D
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Yes :)
So, as it stands right now, the Tab 3 should be able to read (and hopefully transfer) fom an SD card, whether it be from the camera or a card reader.
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Yes :)

Harry
 
I shoot at JPG Fine, very rarely do I dip into RAW. It's an older camera body that tops out at 5MP, IIRC. Maybe 6MP. I have three 2GB cards for the camera, so that's 6GB. Even if I went with the "base" model of the Tab 3, at 16GB internal, I'd still have lots of room. So, I should be good in that respect.

I've often looked at the dedicated backup units, but it would be nice if I could get a sort of all-in-one solution while I'm away...or even local. The tablet I think fulfills that need nicely.

I like the third link you posted, that's pretty interesting, hooking the phone up to the camera body. I'll have to see if that works with my old and tired clicker.
 
I found and am very happy with the eye-fi. It is an sd casrd with wifi built in and then you install the ey-fi app on android or ios and it syncs the pictures over as you take them or next time you are near your mobile device. See if your camera is supported.
 
Slug said:
Does the Samsung support USB OTG? If so a simple OTG cable (microUSB plug + USB Type B socket) will let it 'host' a card reader.
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I know the S3 does cause I've used one with a jump drive. VERY slow though.

Better option, since you usually have a laptop handy, is DropBox. Just drag and drop from the storage folder to the DropBox folder on your laptop. Once it syncs (need internet), just open DropBox on your phone and voil
 
timlitw said:
I found and am very happy with the eye-fi. It is an sd casrd with wifi built in and then you install the ey-fi app on android or ios and it syncs the pictures over as you take them or next time you are near your mobile device. See if your camera is supported.
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Unfortunately, I think my camera body is too old to accept SDHC cards. I recall having to jump through some hoops to get the right cards when I got the camera.
 
Doit2it said:
I know the S3 does cause I've used one with a jump drive. VERY slow though.

Better option, since you usually have a laptop handy, is DropBox. Just drag and drop from the storage folder to the DropBox folder on your laptop. Once it syncs (need internet), just open DropBox on your phone and voil
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If I remember right the Tab 3 has a microSD slot built-in. I also checked Samsung on that part number and it appears to have one. They do have microSD to SD adapters and you can buy a 'kit'. May not be what you are looking for, but it's something to look into.
 
It does indeed, on the upper left top...if that makes sense.

Unfortunately, I'd have to remove the removable memory card from the Tab to get the adapter in place. Not a terrible thing by itself, I'd just have to leave all the pictures on the internal memory.
 
I know what you mean, I'm just not sure if that's how I would want to do it.

If I have a MicroSD card in that slot to expand the storage capacity of the Tab, I wouldn't want to have to take it out every time I want to load pictures onto the device. And I might want to do that nightly.

For instance, a few years ago I took a cruise on the Rhine River. Every night, I would upload the shots to my laptop. Stupidly, I never organized them, just dumped them into one big folder. So now I don't know where any of the shots were taken.

Hell, maybe a tablet isn't the way to go with this...
 
willyt said:
If I have a MicroSD card in that slot to expand the storage capacity of the Tab, I wouldn't want to have to take it out every time I want to load pictures onto the device. And I might want to do that nightly.
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That make sense, I wasn't thinking in that direction.

willyt said:
I never organized them, just dumped them into one big folder. So now I don't know where any of the shots were taken.
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Sounds like me. :)

willyt said:
Hell, maybe a tablet isn't the way to go with this...
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There are plenty of apps that could be useful. Play Store has an entire section devoted to Photography.
 
willyt said:
... I never organized them, just dumped them into one big folder. So now I don't know where any of the shots were taken ...
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To see your DSLR's SD card connected to your Tab via USB OTG you have to use a file manager. And you'd also use it for organizing your photos in folders and subfolders on your Tab's SD card :) :)

BTW, for to see your DSLR's card on the file manager you have to look for something like "USB storage", the Tab would do no further action as a message shortly popping up saying something like "USB storage mounted".
And before disconnectind you'd go to Settings, Storage and unmount the USB storage.

Harry
 
Harry2 said:
organizing your photos in folders and subfolders on your Tab's SD card
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Folders are only part of the picture. Get the right software and you can read/write tags, labels, locations, and much more from/to a picture file. Also the software should help sort, search, etc.
 
If you used a DSLR, it also writes an EXIF file. That gives all the info about the shot - date, time, location, shutter speed, aperture, etc. Most photo programs on the computer anyway, should give you access. I know Photoshop and lightroom do, so does Gimp. There might even be an app for it.

You would probably have to start a new folder for each batch, and mark them in the DCIM file. My Canon only shoots so many photos to one file by date, then starts another. The folders are all under DCIM on the camera.

You have a DCIM file already on the tablet. Check your file names.
 
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