topic Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files in Camera Software

Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:51:10 GMT

I have just downloaded lightroom and it cannot read my CR2 files downloaded from iPad. Any ideas to solve problem appreciated

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:28:29 GMT

CR2 files are Canon RAW files from a Canon digital camera. How did they get on the iPad? How are you downloading them from the iPad to your computer?

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:32:01 GMT

I connected the canon 5dii to the iPad as i had been advised and they downloaded perfectly. Used to use an Epson 7000 to store images but then that was discontinued as a current model and i was told everyone saved their images to iPad now

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:34:25 GMT

i downloaded from iPad to computer by connecting the two and then following the on screen instructions from lightroom. No problem with images take on Sony Camera which were also raw , only with the canon images

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:58:28 GMT

OK. So if they are on the computer are you saying you imported them into LR but they don't appear in LR? What about trying to open them with DPP to see if they are still OK or got messsed up during transfer.

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:53:25 GMT

They did not get onto the computer. The CR2 logo came up but the computer then said it didn't recognise them

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:18:39 GMT

Is this the process you used?

"Getting Photos off the iPad

After you have transferred photos to your iPad using the CCK, you may be wondering how you get them back off the iPad.

You do this by connecting the iPad to a computer using the standard sync and charge cable that came with your iPad. When connected this way, the iPad appears as a removable drive in your file browser, just as if you had connected a camera or a card reader.

You can then copy the files over to your computer using the default file manager, or using the import function within your desktop software such as Lightroom or Bridge. The raw files will be just the same as if you can transferred them from your camera or storage card."

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:49:26 GMT

John

I don't know what CCK is but i downloaded from camera to ipad using the relevant connection from camera to ipad. When i got back to Australia i downloaded lightroom and followed the lightroom instruction yesterday to import into lightroom. The computer sees the ipad and downloaded Shots taken with Sony camera. I notice that it has also imported some old CR2 files that were on the ipad but it has not imported and will not import recent CR2 files or the attached jpegs.

On preparing to download again i notice that the Cr2 images that were successfully downloaded from ipad appear as thumbnails but the ones that did not download appear just as a CR2 logo. No image appears for those

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:55:35 GMT

CCK is Camera Connection Kit. I am guessing you used the Lightning to USB connector. Instead of trying to go directly to Ligntroom maybe try creating a folder on your desktop and then opening the iPad disk in Windows Explorer and dragging the files from iPad to the folder.

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:57:24 GMT

I have Macbbok Pro. Doing the equivalent of what you suggest on the Mac It tells me that the file has not been imported "import error (9912)

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:15:29 GMT

Sounds like the files got corrupted somehow. Not sure what else to suggest. Maybe someone else will read the post and have a suggestion.

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

RobertTheFat — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:00:51 GMT

@IH wrote:
I have Macbbok Pro. Doing the equivalent of what you suggest on the Mac It tells me that the file has not been imported "import error (9912)

I think your terse answers have us still a bit uncertain about what you're actually trying to do. But the basic problem seems to be that your computer setup (including Lightroom) can't read the CR2 files from your 5D2, though it can read those created by at least one other (earlier?) camera. If you were using a Windows computer running Windows 7 or an older OS, I'd suggest that you start by making sure you have the latest version of the Canon RAW Codec. If there's a similar upgrade available for the Mac, you should probably install it. Also make sure you're using a sufficiently recent version of Lightroom. CR2 files have changed over time, and the inability of older editors and/or operating systems to read newer files is not an uncommon problem.

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

ebiggs1 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:12:22 GMT

The obivious course of action is to take some more photos with the 5D2 and have LR import tham directly from the camera.

Does that work?

It will tell you a lot and I am betting it will let you know the iPad is the issue. I am still amazed you got RAW files on it in the first place and then was able to view them. Somehow in that mix Apple changed them.

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:31:43 GMT

Dear colleagues

I hope i haven't wasted your time. It seems that the Apple ipad does not record the Canon CR2 raw files. That is eventually what Apple told me. I thought the Raw files had been recorded and downloaded into the ipad because when i tried to load them onto the computer from the ipad (where i had saved them direct from the camera), the CR2 logo had appeared. I was misled by that. Only the logo appears to have been saved.

Hence all i have from my trip is JPEG files. Fortunately the jpegs are large.

I used to use a epson P7000 to save images while travelling but that is out of date for more modern cameras.. Any suggestions for a good compact device to save and view images while travelling or do i just buy some more cards?

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:26:29 GMT

I believe Apple support misled you. See this thread

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/iphoneandipodtouchapps/a/iPad-Photography.htm

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

IH — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 04:09:09 GMT

Thanks I'lll try that
IH

Re: Lightroom and CR2 Files

ebiggs1 — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:57:53 GMT

"Any suggestions for a good compact device to save and view images while travelling or do i just buy some more cards?"

What I do when shooting a big job or traveling, even on vacation, I take a 17" laptop, Windoze in my case. I take a couple portable external hard drives. Plus I have about a dozen CF cards. Now I realize this is probably overkill for just a vacation but when you are expected to produce, it is a good procedure. Clients don't except, "Sorry I didn't get back with your photos.", very well.

So I just got into the habit of taking extra security measures. If you have a few, 10 or so, smaller, memory cards you shoule be fine. Say maybe one, or two, for each day?

Just don't delete anything untill you are back home.