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 04/18/2013 02:13:59 PM · #1
For verification purposes, do I need to keep the originals actually *on the card itself*, or can I go ahead and transfer them, unedited, to my hard drive. I need to reformat a card that is acting up, but it has several images I'm considering for the April Free Study. If asked for verification, I want to know if I need to pull it straight from the card, or can I send the copy that is on the computer's hard drive.

Thanks. :)

Message edited by author 2013-04-18 14:20:08.
 04/18/2013 02:16:28 PM · #2
You can keep them on the hard drive. the safest way to transfer them is to use a card reader and drag 'n drop to the storage folder.
 04/18/2013 02:16:45 PM · #3
Originally posted by mariahdc:
For verification purposes, do I need to keep the originals actually *on the card itself*, or can I go ahead and transfer them, unedited, to my hard drive. I need to reformat a disk that is acting up, but it has several images I'm considering for the April Free Study. If asked for verification, I want to know if I need to pull it straight from the card, or can I send the copy that is on the computer's hard drive.

Thanks. :)


You can send it from your hard drive.
 04/18/2013 02:51:31 PM · #4
Good question. I don't drag and drop my files, but rather copy and import my RAW files using Lightroom. In this case, would those files come up as edited by LR3 in the EXIF data even thought I've not touched them?
 04/18/2013 02:58:58 PM · #5
Originally posted by Garry:
Good question. I don't drag and drop my files, but rather copy and import my RAW files using Lightroom. In this case, would those files come up as edited by LR3 in the EXIF data even thought I've not touched them?


I import my RAW files with LR also and use them if validation is needed.
 04/18/2013 03:00:25 PM · #6
Thanks Mark, good to know they would still be valid.
 04/18/2013 07:59:27 PM · #7
I have imported using Aperture for years now and no problem, i doubt LR would be any different.
 04/19/2013 02:27:16 PM · #8
Thanks everyone!
04/19/2013 03:50:27 PM · #9
When using Lightroom to transfer, I believe if you convert to DNG that may be an issue. You would as I understand it need the original raw file that came from the camera.
 04/19/2013 03:55:03 PM · #10
Originally posted by Garry:
Thanks Mark, good to know they would still be valid.

Not to worry, Garry. Only the top five shots get validated. ;-)
 04/19/2013 04:11:52 PM · #11
do not convert to DNG that will not be accepted. I got a dq for it
 04/19/2013 04:13:30 PM · #12
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by Garry:
Thanks Mark, good to know they would still be valid.

Not to worry, Garry. Only the top five shots get validated. ;-)

TouChé
 04/20/2013 10:34:07 AM · #13
If its been through LR it will not be any good for validation.
You need to keep the original file.
 04/20/2013 10:37:08 AM · #14
Originally posted by Garry:
Good question. I don't drag and drop my files, but rather copy and import my RAW files using Lightroom. In this case, would those files come up as edited by LR3 in the EXIF data even thought I've not touched them?


You will need the RAW file not the one that has been into LR.
 04/20/2013 10:37:44 AM · #15
Just showin' off
 04/20/2013 11:33:03 AM · #16
Originally posted by Tiny:
You will need the RAW file not the one that has been into LR.


To be clear, a RAW imported by Lr is still a valid original, unless, as pointed out above,it has been converted to DNG. A JPEG *exported* from Lr is not a valid original, and an image shot in JPEG and imported by Lr may or may not be a valid original, depending if it is tagged by Lr.
 04/20/2013 01:01:41 PM · #17
Originally posted by Tiny:
Just showin' off


you may want to stop showing off, you aren't correct. ;-P

04/20/2013 01:23:02 PM · #18
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by Garry:
Thanks Mark, good to know they would still be valid.

Not to worry, Garry. Only the top five shots get validated. ;-)

Originally posted by Mike:
you may want to stop showing off, you aren't correct. ;-P

Only the top five images are automatically validated. However, even a last-place finisher can be subject to validation either during or after the voting.

FWIW I transfer my images (JPEGs) using a card reader, and I don't erase them from the card until I've backed those up to opticalmedia (CD/DVD). I try to always maintain two copies of data on two different forms of media.
 04/21/2013 06:01:21 AM · #19
Originally posted by Mike:
Originally posted by Tiny:
Just showin' off


you may want to stop showing off, you aren't correct. ;-P


Well I was sort of xxxxxxx

Message edited by author 2013-04-21 06:03:06.
 04/21/2013 07:59:45 AM · #20
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by Garry:
Thanks Mark, good to know they would still be valid.

Not to worry, Garry. Only the top five shots get validated. ;-)


Really?... I was asked to provide the original for this gem

Ray
 04/21/2013 08:30:01 AM · #21
Slippy was poking fun at me and my chances of a top 5, he wasn't being serious about the validations.
04/21/2013 08:44:01 AM · #22
Originally posted by Garry:
Slippy was poking fun at me and my chances of a top 5, he wasn't being serious about the validations.

Yup. :-D
I can do that because I know you'll be getting ribbons soon enough.
 04/21/2013 08:47:54 AM · #23
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by Garry:
Slippy was poking fun at me and my chances of a top 5, he wasn't being serious about the validations.

Yup. :-D
I can do that because I know you'll be getting ribbons soon enough.


But are you still joking.
 04/21/2013 08:52:33 AM · #24
He doesn't know when to stop, just keeps rubbing it in.

A ribbon is as elusive as a Tasmanian wolf at a dodo's teaparty.
04/21/2013 11:08:38 AM · #25
Originally posted by Garry:
A ribbon is as elusive as a Tasmanian wolf at a dodo's teaparty.


LOL! But seriously, you've finished in the top 10 four times (almost 10% of your entries) and the the best three of those could easily have ribboned in some challenges. It seems like it will never happen, until *bam*, it just does.
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