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Options for moving images onto the computer

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The question is, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody ever hears it, does it make a sound? In photography, we could likewise ask, if an image exists only in the camera, does anyone ever see it? The photographer sees it on the camera LCD screen, but that’s about it. With the high quality of captured RAW data, moving images from camera to computer for processing is part of the workflow. I know this seems obvious, but I bet we all know people who have images in their cameras that have never seen the light of day. Then again, these may be the same people who still have unprocessed ...

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