Sunday, June 30, 2013

How To Transfer Your Digital Photos And Videos Ultra Fast

By Mike Thompson


These days everybody is using a digital camera to record home videos and special events. With video sizes ballooning due to new HD formats, it's critical you don't get bogged down while transferring.

In the recent past, it wasn't uncommon for photos to take up very little space. However, as time went on, the file sizes of digital media has exponentially increased that has caused many a delay whilst transferring photos and videos to and from the computer. When digital cameras first arrived onto the scene, the typical memory card ranges were 8MB, 32MB and 64MB.

However those memory cards won't cut it today. In fact today's pictures themselves are larger than the entire memory cards of the past! Some of the largest cards on the market currently are 64 GB and 32 GB memory cards.

As a matter of fact, transfer speeds differ from camera to camera and this makes transferring photos and videos to a computer a little unpredictable. In order to make it more predictable and faster, some certain technical measures need to be enforced.

From this point onward, we are going to discuss the ways with which you can enhance your transfer speeds and free up as much time for you as possible. We will begin by talking about the two things that cause transfer speeds to go up and down.

The first reason is the camera-to-card load speed. This is mostly a memory issue inside the camera and really the only way to increase this speed is by using a faster memory card. In some of the newest cameras you'll find burst modes that can take pictures continuously however they can fill up memory fast! The camera's memory buffer needs to be able to keep up.

Out of every compact flash card available, one of the fastest ones has to be the Lexar Professional Series. These highly advanced memory cards can deliver speeds of over 1000, which is equal to 150MB/s of transfer speed.

The second thing to keep in mind about transfer speeds is the type of card you are using. The most recent card readers use the modern USB 3.0 and is up to 5 times faster than the older USB 2.0 version. If you haven't seen how fast the USB 3.0 is, then hopefully you will soon. The major benefit of these is massively cutting down on waiting times, as you can transfer things high quality pictures an videos in minutes rather than hours.

It is easy to see that transferring your photos and videos very quickly is possible, but it requires the right memory card and card reader. With modern day HD quality photos and videos, it is essential that you use the most up-to-date equipment available.




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