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Omni

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Previewing Images Before Acquiring -- How?
« on: August 13, 2004, 11:28:04 pm »
I did a simple forum search and either came back with no hits or hundreds of hits.  To save myself the aggravation, I figured I would just ask.  Sorry if this has been asked/answered before.


Regarding media cards (like from one's digital camera), MC is able to see and read mine fine.  It will sit there and display all those little cryptic camera-assigned filenames just fine.  How do I view a preview thumbnail of the file without actually acquiring the images??

Every application I have ever used (Adobe [Photoshop, Album], ACDSee, Directory Opus, many others, and yes, even plain old Windows Explorer!) allows for this, so I am certain that there is some option or something that I am not setting in MC.

I change the view to thumbnail mode of course, but all I get is a hundred little default MC Logo icons.  I even tried the "Rebuild missing thumbnails" option, but still nothing.  What am I doing wrong?
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Re:Previewing Images Before Acquiring -- How?
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2004, 11:30:47 pm »
Oops... sorry... forgot to mention that this is for MC 11 that I seek advice, not MC 10, though I imagine they are both the same in this regard.
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Re:Previewing Images Before Acquiring -- How?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2004, 03:15:08 am »
Come on, guys... Absolutely no one here has ever been able to preview images before acquiring them?  Throw me a bone here.  :-\  :)
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Re:Previewing Images Before Acquiring -- How?
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2004, 08:41:29 am »
Our vision of the workflow is this:

1) Acquire all the images

then

2) View, organize, delete, etc.


This is because acquiring from a flash card takes so little time.

However, if you really wanted, MC should show thumbs in 'My Computer' for the card.  If that isn't working, it'd be a bug in MC 11.

Thanks.
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Re:Previewing Images Before Acquiring -- How?
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2004, 03:31:55 pm »
Quote from: Matt on August 17, 2004, 08:41:29 am
However, if you really wanted, MC should show thumbs in 'My Computer' for the card.  If that isn't working, it'd be a bug in MC 11.

Well, don't fret.  I haven't tried looking at the "removable drive" (aka flash card) via your "My Computer" node, so I'm not claiming that there is a bug or anything.  ;)

I don't necessarily oppose or disagree with your workflow paradigm, but unfortunately, it excludes the scenarios involving quick point, shoot, and save sessions.

For instance, my need for this came about Friday when I was putting together my new system.  For the first time, I had a digital camera around, so instead of writing down all the serial numbers and device part numbers, I figured I would would just take a picture. :)  I have a relatively good non-SLR camera, but it creates horrible thumbnails, so I never know if a shot is good (in focus, good lighting, etc.) until I view it in full form on the computer.  Because of this, I generally take about 6-7 shots of the same scene to increase the odds that at least one of them will be a keeper.

Blah, blah, blah...  ;D  The point is I generally do not ever download all the shots--the thumbnails produced by ADCSee or Windows Explorer has always been good enough to distinguish between the shots that are in focus and the shots that are not.

Oh, well, anyway, sorry to ramble.  Thank you for clearing that up for me.
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