@Skirball wrote:
You don't need to use EOS utility at all. Your operating system (e.g. Windows, whatever Mac uses these days, Linux, etc) can read the files on the computer and put them in a folder of your choosing to be read by whatever photo editing software you use. Alternately, most photo editing software will import the files for you and put them in whatever filing system you choose. When I put an SD card into my computer Adobe Lightroom automatically starts up and opens up an import dialog so I can choose what files I want to upload. It will automatically put it in a folder titled with the date of capture unless I specify otherwise.
Before I started using Lightroom I just used Adobe Bridge, which is part of Photoshop. I would manually copy my files from the SD card to the folder of my choice using Windows Explorer. Then open the files in Bridge and edit in ACR and Photoshop as necessary.
I'd just add that one thing the EOS Utility will do for you that the operating system won't is rename your image files on the fly. But that feature is usually of minimal value, since you can rename them with your photo editor (or the OS) as soon as you get them into a folder.
Using a card reader, you can also rename the files on the card, but that may not be the smartest idea. Most people prefer not to make any change to an image file until they have at least one copy on the computer. It's too easy to accidentally delete something.
Bob
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
