How to move images from Q3 27 to Lightroom to develop them

[FrankU]

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I want to move my newer Q3 27 photos to my Lightroom Classic. I tried to do it from Camera and via an SD card reader and failed to get anything done.   I can see long DCIM numbers, but where are those from October? How do I recognize them. How do I import them to LrC? Can I do this directly from the camera by cable, the image transfer?

Should I ask Lightroomqueen, would they know how to help.

 

I looked at youtubes, but they use weird folder structures that seem too complicated and do not work: Transfer data from camera to LrC for development. What do you suggest

 

I had done this a while back for my first photos when I received the camera in September . But now I see no way ...

 

Thanks   FrankU

[GFW2-SCUSA]

Lightroom Queen is good. I find Lightroom not to be at all intuitive and in fact it baffles me even after several workshops.  I find that Photos on my Mac does most of what I want quite well with the exception of good organization.  Leica Store Miami often run Lightroom workshops which I took and was well done. 

 

 

[LocalHero1953]

My process is to use a SD card reader;

1. Open Lightroom Classic
2. Make sure you're in the Library module (top right)
3. Click Import (bottom left). You should see a list of drives and directories on the left side of your screen.
4. Select the drive that represents your card reader.
5. Select the image folder on the drive: DCIM. This should show thumbnails of all your images in the middle of the screen.
6. Click Check All (bottom left).
7. Click Import (bottom right).

That's the basic sequence. Before (7) you could choose which folder on your computer you want the photos put in - that is bottom right as well.

This is all really a Lightroom question rather than Leica one, so a Lightroom Queen forum may give you help from a wider range of backgrounds.

[FrankU]

Paul's answer was superb and after a couple of glitches in interpretation (my fault) I can now import my files from the SD card via a card reader. ( I cannot transfer directly via cable from camera ... ,.That sounds odd, but so is much of Leica Setup topics ...)

 

Doing so at first I got only one line of Exif data in LrC, the rest were all missing. So I searched for EXIF readers and that was fruitless and I gave up on ExifTool.

 

Fortunately and miraculously all my newest images that I newly imported from the Leica SD card got their Exif data now.  Great. Why now, I do not know. The Sony camersas of old had no problems with listing full Exifs. Why the Leicas ? ? 

 

But on the way we had time change in the US and my recent dates of capture were all over the board. So I reset my date and time in the Camera Settings menue. There was a problem or two: when i wanted to change the day one number down, all got messed up, likewise when trying to go from October to November ... going down with the up/down errors is deadly. Eventually I tried the up arrow on the Q3 and 11 clicks later I arrived at the correct hour, same with months and minutes: Go up only.

 

But nowhere is this mentioned and so everybody has to learn this in her or his own way. The Leica pdf has no info on this quirk. Nothing!

So: can we somehow set up a "quirk-overcome' sub-forum with all technical stuff like this "go up only" that can help everyone new to the realm and use etc. Wetzlar has such odd ways of thinking, not bad, but treacherous to newcomers like me.

Why do the Q3 Camera Setting only allow 15 keystroke for Shooter's name and Copyright holder? Why not 30 or 50?  How silly ... is that?  And on and on, Wetzlar, wake up please ... Would this all change if I switched to German as my language? Should I try ...  Why not ... Maybe I should ask for the Q3 book in German ...

Thanks, and please share your best Q3 tricks freely, please,

Frank

[FrankU]

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This morning I  want to download a few recent pics from the Q3 Lexar SD card, but if I remember correctly, the images are stored on the card in a jumble. They are "sorted by capture date"; but that is not so.

 

When I open the SD card on a card reader and want to move them into Lightroom, all images on the card are slowly appearing in the LrC frame and Smart Previews are instantly started to be created again; for all images on the card, ancient ones and recent ones .... That takes about 20 + minutes and eventually I can sort through the mess: somewhere in this mess there are my dozen pics from last night. Once located, the LrC process of standard previews starts automaticly on all images (600) on the card and drags on and on. 

 

And then I can search for last night's images and import them to my Q3 files for November.

 

This may be happening to all of us, or I might be executing the image download just badly; I do not know what I might be doing wrong.

 

As remedy it would be nice if the images on the card were stored by date, but with the newest images stored first. Can that be done from a Leica Q3? Or do we all have to suffer from this quirk forever?  Eventually my large card (128 Gig) will hold 1200 images and this mostly futile, senseless process might take an hour ... just to get to last night's dozen pics.

 

Can I import the newest files quickly and not bother with older files on the card ? ? How can I change the entries in the little pop-up window below?

 

Below is a little subscreen where I will be importing 500+ pics.Every time I want to upload, import anew.

But I want to upload only a dozen from Nov 5, this day's wee early hours. How can one limit the upload to the specified day or week? In LrC? For the Q3? 

 

Any help on this?    LRC' fault ?    My fault ?

 

Thanks  FrankU

[LocalHero1953]

All this import stuff is really Lightroom-related, not Leica. I think you would do best to follow a Lightroom training course or look at videos from Lightroom Queen or Julianne Kost (I watched a lot of the latter when I was learning).

I don't recognise the issues you're having - I'm not saying they're not real, but if I ever encountered them, it was 13 years ago when I first started using Lightroom, solved such problems, and have now forgotten all about them!

[TomB_tx]

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I don't have a Q3 but use LIghtroom for my Leica and other digital cameras. I never have any such problems, but I always use LR to import the images off the SD card daily (or at first opportunity) so it never has to deal with a lot of images. Then I use Windows to delete all images from the SD card before I put it back in the camera. That keeps thinks simple and clean. I've also never re-formatted an SD card - just remove the image files. Some cameras keep a database on the card that has to be "repaired" after deleting the images, but not with any of my Leicas.

[250swb]

Is Lightroom up to date, there has just been an update and it could be file type associations need to be reset for Lightroom to recognise Q3 files.

[FrankU]

I was afraid of what is happening when I follow when I went the Leica download way : All 800 pics are judged to be New as well and the bottom 180 are the ones from yesterday and today, which I wanted to download. They all carry silly non-informational Leica numbers and contain no Exif content see screenshot below for the Leica way.

I will check for the new LR version to be sure I am doing it right.

Now what do I do with these 600 Leica numbered files? How to select the latest (bottom files only to upload them?  These files carry the titles of L101026 with 1 through 69 following for Oct 26  and L10102 with 1 through 94 following behind for Oct  27. If I had taken more than the 94 pics that day, I would have broken the mold with more than 100 pics taken that day.

Importing this mess of nonsense into Leica Lightroom would create infinite much silly work.

Importing directly into LR as I  have done for years from my Sonies  gives its own problems (with infinite nonsense repeating work now and - however - BUT :with LR usable Exif data for all ics !

So this is really a noncompatibilite issue here: Hell for the user in both realms, hell for me.

And how can one and I bridge that gap, between 

Leica uses and LR uses?

 

Frank U

 

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Here is the Direct import with all Exif data intact automatically, but with excessive reimporting all dat for half hours.If that could be reduced to importing just new files, that would be the right way, but how can this be done ...

[Jeff S]

As above, I suggest that you refer to reliable LR teaching resources, video (Julianne Kost, Victoria Hampton, et. al.) and/or book (e.g., Scott Kelby).  In addition to answers to your basic questions here, you will receive good tips on various matters, such as initial setup and file organization, that will likely save you from innumerable problems later. I did this 15 years ago and am thankful that I did.  Kelby’s (and now late Martin Evening’s) guides became invaluable resources to start, and later as issues arose.  The Kost free videos still prove useful as new features are introduced.

Jeff

[LocalHero1953]

9 hours ago, FrankU said:

And how can one and I bridge that gap, between 

Leica uses and LR uses?

 

It is clear that you need to learn how to use Lightroom - these aren't Leica issues. Please go to the resources mentioned above. Many of us have been through the same process, using those same resources. There is no shortcut to learning Lightroom.

[hoolyproductions]

11 hours ago, FrankU said:

Now what do I do with these 600 Leica numbered files? How to select the latest (bottom files only to upload them?  These files carry the titles of L101026 with 1 through 69 following for Oct 26  and L10102 with 1 through 94 following behind for Oct  27. If I had taken more than the 94 pics that day, I would have broken the mold with more than 100 pics taken that day.

• When importing, Lightroom usually shows the files in chronological order. In your screenshot the 'sort' drop down is set to 'off'. Set it to 'capture time' and they should appear in chronological order
• When a specific file (image) has already been imported and remains in your library (ie. you have not deleted it meanwhiie) this will normally be automatically not included in the import. By default Lightroom selects all files on the card for import (ie. all the boxes next to each thumbnail will be ticked, expect previously imported files). If you want to do this manually you can deselect them all (there is a 'global' tick box for this at the top of the import screen) and then manually select the ones you want to import
• It sounds like you are not deleting old images on your SD card and this is the source of 'the mess'. Perhaps you have reasons to keep redundant files on your memory card (e.g. as back up) but you could solve this by formatting your card after you have imported (also after you made any back ups to your library e.g to a hard drive or cloud).

[luetz]

Try checking off "do not import suspected duplicates" in your import screen in LR Classic....

[ianforber]

Regardless of what software I’ve been using I always clear the SD card after importing the images into the computer. I do it by reinserting the card into the camera and formatting it there. Others have different approaches but it should help enormously if you start with an SD card with no or relatively few images on it. 

[FrankU]

Thanks everyone.

My importing new images from the Q3 is working now and well; see the bottom screen shot of the old Macbook Q3 stuff.

I had only me to blame: I had never set my date and time of day correctly on the Q3 before. Once I did this and formatted the SD card, all goes well and I have my Exif data also.

This whole effort is part of moving my images dating from 2012 (mostly on Box) on to a new Macbook Pro with M3 Silikon processor. And this gives me problems now.

I installed the proper LrC and I used he same Lightroom Catalog-v13-3.lrcat on the new computer as on the old where I had saved all my images from old and new.

    But the Leica Q3 images do not appear on the new fancy M3 laptop.

See the screen shots below from both computers ...

How can that happen? What can I do?

I redid this process of installing from the v13-3.lrcat twice and nothing appears on the new faster M3 computer from the Q3 camera. I checked with images from a Sony camera from earlier this year and all the data is there on the new computer's LrC screen, with Exif data etc,.

 

How can I move the Q3 image data from the old Macbook onto the new computer and why did this happen?    To them, to me ... ?

I checked the ...v13-3.lrcat contents on both computers: the old laptop has the correct and complete DNG data from the Q3 and the new Macbook shows zero (0) images from the Q3 taken in  the last few days.   Why ?

Aren't the same lrcat catalogs the same? How can they differ from platform to platform?  New computer screen with M3 processor  shot first.

No Leica Q3 data at all. Other data fine and complete.

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Old intel Macbook (2012) with all photo data from 12 years complete and available, including Leica Q3 September and November shots, complete with Exif Data, even from today.

 

Aren't the same lrcat catalogs the same? How can they differ (specifically the catalog-v13-3.lrdat for me) from platform to platform? 

How can I get that L_ Q3 data onto the new M3 Mac lrdat and work with developing them, export jpegs for printing etc ... etc ?

I scratch my head and wonder ...

 

Thanks again; any ideas ?

 

Frank 

Any ideas how to import from another computer into Lightroom. I scratch my head on the 'how to' here.

[FrankU]

Thanks everyone.

My importing new images from the Q3 is working now.

 

I had only me to blame: I had never set my date and time of day correctly on the Q3 before. Once I did this and formatted the SD card, all goes well and I have my Exif data also.

This whole effort is part of moving my images dating from 2012 (mostly on Box) on to a new Macbook Pro with M3 Silikon processor. And this gives me problems now.

I installed the proper LrC and I used he same Lightroom Catalog-v13-3.lrcat on the new computer as on the old where I had saved all my images from old and new. But the Leica Q3 images do not appear on the new fancy laptop. See screen shots below from both computers ...

 

How can that happen? What can I do?

I redid this process of installing from the v13-3.lrcat twice and nothing appears on the new faste computer from the Q3. I checked with images from a Sony camera from earlier this year and all the data is there on the new computer's LrC screen, with Exif data etc,.

 

How can I move the Q3 image data from the old Macbook onto the new computer and why did this happen? 

I checked the ...v13-3.lrcat contents on both computers: the old laptop has the correct and complete DNG data and the new Macbook shows zero (0) images from the Q3 and the last few days.

Aren't the same lrcat catalogs the same? How can they differ from platform to platform?  New computer screen with M3 processor  shot first.

No Leica Q3 data at all. Other data fine and complete.

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Old intel Macbook (2012) with all photo data from 12 years complete and available, including Leica Q3 September and November complete with Exif Data, even from today.

 

 

 

 

[FrankU]

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This morning I tried to use the Q3 images on the SD card ( remember I formatted the card and just took a few trial shots yesterday that would not transfer from Catalog-v13-3.lrcat on the old Macbook to the New M3 Macbook Pro).

I tried to upload these 9 DNG + large Jpeg to the new Computer and they arrived very badly, see the screenshot after renaming, ...  Just as I had done last night to upload them to the old computer in the same Catalog which went very nicely then.

The thumbprints carry no Exif info, not even their address (U-year-month-day-shot number), yet the camera sidebar has all this info on the new M3 computer.

So I should take some pics today with the Q3 and try to upload them to both computers to see which one works and which one fails me.

 

This is a Lightroom Cataloging Problem that may only exist for Leica Q3 shots.

A weird marriage, but I want to have this solved, if someone can help me ..

Thanks,   Frank U

 

 

[Le Chef]

As others have said, your best course of action is to find the Adobe videos by Julianne Kost on using LR. Or go to the Lightroom Queen website. Both are excellent and very simple to follow. They will save you time and heartache if you follow their instructions.