#REIKAN FOCAL PRO WON'T RECOGNIZE CAMERA PC SOFTWARE#
One thing I recommend is never plugging this camera into to the computer to download images, because it's possible, it's not easy to do this, but it's possible to write software onto the camera, which would not be good for your camera. On Canons, I'm not sure how it works, but it's just something that I do to make sure it's turning over at 9,999, and then it doesn't go back to zero every time I put a new card in and format it, 'cause that way, if I put a card in, and I do a shoot, and I fill up the card, and then I put a new card in, if it's not set to continuous, then you have the same file names, and if you overwrite those to the same folder, you're gonna overwrite images, so that's a key little thing that you may or may not have thought about, but you probably figured it out pretty quickly once you started shooting. So if you don't set it, in Nikons you have to set it to continuous to make sure it recycles. Most cameras start at zero and go to 9,999, and then they start over at zero again. In RAW, it doesn't matter, because you're selecting that after the fact, but I still just set it in the camera to make sure it's taken care of. If you want the best image quality, then you want to record the most colors. So you can see that sRGB is probably 40% smaller than Adobe RGB. So this is what Adobe RGB shows, this is what sRGB shows over there. The triangle inside is the size of that color gamut specifically. This is what we can see with our eyes, the color gamut, the bigger area of color. So as you can see, sRGB on the left there is much smaller, so this whole thing just to explain. Your cameras by default will come in an sRGB color space.
If you're shooting JPEGs it matters a lot. And this may or may not matter, depending if you're shooting JPEGs or RAW. If I'm shooting at Jaws on the north shore of Maui, big wave surfing, I may wanna know that it was 8 o'clock when that sun hit the water on January 15, that way if I go back, I kind of have an idea of when the sun's gonna hit the water or stuff like that. I try to make sure that my cameras are synced up, date and time, and I shoot with multiple bodies, so I make sure that the bodies are synced up, so if I switch bodies, I can see all those images in a chronological order when I download them into the software, and it just gives you an idea. Because I fly all over the world to shoot stuff. We're gonna run through a few of these, we're gonna go through every one of them. There's a list of stuff that I have, that I go through, before every single assignment. I mean if you have a DSLR or a mirrorless camera these days, that's way better than film was, 35 millimeter film, back in the days.
The gear is less important than it's ever been, because every digital camera out there, even your iPhone, not that it's the pinnacle of photography, is a pretty amazing camera these days. I've got a hot spot sitting up here, so I haven't really held off too much on that. I've got the GAS syndrome, gear acquisition syndrome. First off the bat, everybody thinks of gear, everybody's, I'm kind of a gearhead, I'll admit.