Cliff L. wrote: indusphoto wrote: Cliff L. wrote: indusphoto wrote: Carlo_M wrote: Cliff L. wrote:
I never worry about trying to freeze the wings, so I don't pay much attention to the shutter speed as long as the bird's head is not blurred.
I also used the mechanical shutter exclusively when shooting hummingbirds with the R5; with the R5 II the stacked sensor readout speed is fast enough to use electronic shutter most of the time.
I would also never shoot in JPEG, but that's just me...
re: jpg. I shoot RAW+JPEG. Often I don't get around to reviewing and editing RAW for many days/weeks depending on how busy I am with work. Shooting that way allows me to immediately share results with friends (and forums like FM!) with minimal effort.
One of the best features in newer cameras (besides pre-capture) is the direct cloud upload. This has the potential to revolutionize workflow. Once it is setup, you can leave the camera on (and connected to wifi) and it will automatically upload to cloud and to a service of your choice. I have it connected to Lightroom. Once I come back from an outing, the camera automatically connects to cloud and starts uploading (ok. in Canons case, I need to turn camera off & On). In a few minutes, images start appearing n my Lightroom mobile auto-magically!
Of course the images are also available in Lr Desktop but having them in mobile makes it easy to edit and share on the go. Eventually all images and videos are in Lightroom. It does fill up my LR storage space, but LR does not block uploads immediately. At some point I open my Lr desktop, make sure that all images are synced/downloaded to local, and then delete them in cloud.
What's your process for confirming all files have been successfully copied to your desktop and deleted from your camera?
I use Lightroom Classic on desktop. I look at the sync status on top right (cloud icon) to see if the sync is complete. I check the physical location in Library (where the synced files are downloaded) and on the drive to doa quick check that raw files exist. Then I go in the LR "All synced photographs" collection, select the ones I want to delete and delete them. This only deleted them on cloud and local copy is left intact. Even if I delete something I shouldn't, all files are in trash folder for 60 days. However the cloud storage is immediately released even though files are still in trash.
I also go through a separate process of re-syncing these files back to cloud using smart collections. Smart collections dont sync. So I have been using this plugin to automate this process for this kind of sync https://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smart-collection-sync
It sounds like any time you save with the cloud transfer is going to be wasted having to physically verify that each of the files has actually been transferred...
I did do pain stacking verification on individual files in the beginning but I am now very comfortable with the reliability. But I agree, this digression is going too far. Let us get back to the topic.
Jun 16, 2025 at 08:10 PM
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