Image Transfer to Mac from a Leica Q2 Camera

[f35]

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Hello, good afternoon, does anyone know how to transfer images from the camera (Leica q2) to a Mac. - It is not good to remove the card from the camera every time to transfer. It is also cumbersome to transfer the photos to Mac Photo from Leica Photos ; that's why the question.-.- thank you

[Gerardjan]

why isn't it good to remove a card? I'm doing it since 2004 and never had a problem. Never heard of this before either. You can safely remove the card all the time.

[Driften]

I guess you could us the Fotos app to transfer them to your phone and then from the phone to the Mac, but removing the card and pulling them directly off would be faster. If you had an Q3 then you could connect it directly via usb. The Q2 can't do that.

[Le Chef]

I have been taking cards out of cameras and putting them into computers for 10 years with no adverse effects so far. I would trust that process far more than wireless transfer with Fotos.

[jaapv]

I have been using cards (CF and SD) in multiple cameras for two decades and I never even heard of any issue. I back up my cameras daily, using a card reader. Where did you read that it is alleged to be harmful?

[bobtodrick]

Harmful to remove card...not at all.

Where ever you heard this was wrong.

[Le Chef]

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It would only be potentially harmful if you removed the card if the camera was live.

[anonymoose]

User facing ports like the SD card are typically rated for 10,000+ cycles.

If you pulled the memory card out and reinserted it 3 times a day it would take you roughly 9 years to break that port. Stop overthinking it and pull your SD card out like a normal person to transfer your photos.

Edited December 11, 2023 by anonymoose

[AndreasG]

It once happened to me that in a Panasonic camera the retaining spring for the SD card was broken/non functional, but this does not prevent me to take the SD card out from my digital M almost daily.