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Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

TanBrae — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 04:03:38 GMT

I normally have several memory cards with me, but for some reason, I forgot my extras, and was in need of more space. I did manage to find a card that would work in my camera, but wasn't sure how well. As I had a couple flash drives with me, I wondered if it were possible to download the images directly to one of them. I'm thinking the answer is "no", but...

Also, if the answer IS no, then can you recommend a good portable hard drive onto which I can transfer images from my 80D?

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

RobertTheFat — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 04:47:22 GMT

Doesn't Canon make such a device? They did a few years ago, although I haven't seen it advertised lately.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:49:16 GMT

Western Digital My **bleep** Wireless Pro will download from SD card.

(Not sure why the word pa$$port is being bleeped by the forum software)

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

cicopo — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:06:45 GMT

I have the WD hard drive & it works quite well. takes a few tries to remember exactly what to do but once you know the order it's a nice accessory.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

TCampbell — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:23:52 GMT

You may be thinking of the Canon Connect Station:

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/cameras/connect-station/connect-station-cs100

It's a 1TB drive. It connects to a TV which it uses as a display (it has no internal display of it's own.) Also, I think it has no power of it's own... it requires that you connect it to an AC power adapter. I'm thinking it probably isn't suitable for use out in the field.

There are some 3rd party backup hard drives which do work out in the field. Although I have to think their days are numbered given the increased capacity of memory cards. It's likely both more economical as well as space-saving to just buy a few spare cards to keep in the camera bag.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

RobertTheFat — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:15:17 GMT

@TCampbell wrote:
You may be thinking of the Canon Connect Station:

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/cameras/connect-station/connect-station-cs100

It's a 1TB drive. It connects to a TV which it uses as a display (it has no internal display of it's own.) Also, I think it has no power of it's own... it requires that you connect it to an AC power adapter. I'm thinking it probably isn't suitable for use out in the field.

There are some 3rd party backup hard drives which do work out in the field. Although I have to think their days are numbered given the increased capacity of memory cards. It's likely both more economical as well as space-saving to just buy a few spare cards to keep in the camera bag.

You should do that anyway, but it doesn't provide any backup capability. The advantage of a laptop computer or a standalone hard drive is that you can immediately produce a second copy of your image files.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

cicopo — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:37:45 GMT

There are also wireless jump drives that you can transfer to if the camera has WiFi & can be set to communicate with the jump drive. I bought one of them & the Wireless card for the 7D2 but won't be using that set up due to other restrictions. With the card (Canon's) you MUST work in tethered mode & can't use the camera in a normal fashion. Touch a button & it disconnects from WiFi mode. As for the WD Drive it transfers from an SD card relatively fast & I had copied all of my photos to it after shooting a Jet event. Copied all 5 cards (used 4 different cameras) before we had our group dinner. The WD drive is USB 3.0 so copying from it to my desktop was way quicker than from the cards to the desktop.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:00:22 GMT

You can also plug in a USB card reader and download CF cards. I don't know if they all work but the PixelFlash one does.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

cicopo — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:19:27 GMT

You can transfer from an SD card without any other device being needed but to use a card reader you also need to connect to the HD via a wireless device like a smart phone or tablet, computer etc.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:26:13 GMT

I'm not sure about that. It was last spring when I travelled, but if I recall I just plugged the reader into the USB port and downloaded CF card to the **bleep**, just like an SD card.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

cicopo — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:06:19 GMT

I'm not sure about that. It was last spring when I travelled, but if I recall I just plugged the reader into the USB port and downloaded CF card to the **bleep**, just like an SD card.

I'm happy to report that you are CORRECT. I must have done it wrong when I tried it when new. Everything needed to try again was right here so I hooked it up & installed a CF card & it has transferred, but it was slow compared to the SD cards. I was using a USB 2.0 card reader though but the card is a 90 MB/Sec Extreme Pro.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:40:49 GMT

For a moderator:

Just curious, but why does the software show **bleep** in place of the word "P a s s p o r t" (spaces added).

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

Danny — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:34:46 GMT

Hi, everyone!

We'll admit that we were initially stumped as to why that word would be blocked, but we did some digging and found a reason. We have a number of spam filters in place to keep the forum from being overrun with irrelevant content and by individuals making dubious offers. A recurring item being offered by these individuals are illicit identification documents, including pas$ports. (See, even we have to dance around it.) As this is an ongoing concern, we unfortunately have to keep that on our list of words to filter.

It looks like you all have devised ways to convey the name of the product without triggering our spam filters, so feel free to continue using that, or consider using more generic terms to describe it.

Thanks for your understanding!

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

RobertTheFat — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:59:37 GMT

@Danny wrote:
Hi, everyone!

We'll admit that we were initially stumped as to why that word would be blocked, but we did some digging and found a reason. We have a number of spam filters in place to keep the forum from being overrun with irrelevant content and by individuals making dubious offers. A recurring item being offered by these individuals are illicit identification documents, including pas$ports. (See, even we have to dance around it.) As this is an ongoing concern, we unfortunately have to keep that on our list of words to filter.

It looks like you all have devised ways to convey the name of the product without triggering our spam filters, so feel free to continue using that, or consider using more generic terms to describe it.

Thanks for your understanding!

It seems to me that only a very unsophisticated spam filter would block a post for a single appearance of that word with no supporting context for the decision. Good filters apply statistical analysis to all the words in a message. Whatever you paid for yours was probably too much.

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

cicopo — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:30:20 GMT

I remember those messages well. Give us your credit card info & we'll sell you fake documents. What could go wrong there???????

Re: Can I transfer my photos from my 80D directly to a flash drive?

TanBrae — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 01:55:35 GMT

I need to get one of those. Thanks for sharing that info!

Now, if only somebody could find my missing SD card! I can't believe I lost it, and have NO idea where it is.