Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day and welcome to
today's video. Now a couple of weeks ago I was asked by me one of my subscribers
for recommendations for backing up his pictures when he goes on a holler to
China now I didn't want to use their iCloud service because of the problems
with the internet connectivity in China and possible security issues around that
internet service out in China so I was looking for some other ways of backing
up his precious memories now there are several devices on the market that allow
you to insert a compact flash card into a portable hard disk in effect and it
you would then copy the images and video from your card to a hard drive within
the unit now that would seem a sensible solution however from what I've read
they tend to be a little bit iffy on their working sometimes you'll insert
the compact flash card and the initiation doesn't happen you don't get
that transfer to the hard disk you have to insert the card several times to
start that transfer now additionally there is a problem with a software as
well if you've got a camera which keeps the same image numbers if you reformat
the card and I think some Canon cameras do that you could end up by transferring
images shots say on day one then you reformat your card take some more images
they will get the same image sequence numbers now when you come to transfer
those images across the device it looks in its directory and finds that they're
already there so it doesn't transfer your new images so you could end up with
a situation well you haven't transferred new images
so for that reason I'm not going to even recommend that you go that way
in fact the manufacturers still trying to resolve that problem I believe so
what are the options available to him well he is taken a smartphone with him
and it has a substantial amount of memory in it so you can actually use
your smart phone to act as a backup device it's not you're taking his F set
200 so we don't have Wi-Fi connectivity so we're gonna have to use USB transfer
or take the memory card out and use a SD card reader now it's an iPhone is taking
so one of the things you will need is the iPhone camera connection kit now up
or so on quite an extortion rate for what it is but you can get these
third-party devices and the third-party ones actually have
inbuilt card readers as well so not only are you getting the camera connection
kit so you're going from lightning to USB but you've also got the opportunity
there to capture images from yours SD card or micro SD card in this device so
let's look at both methods my preferred method is actually to use this
third-party one because if you've got a camera that you can act in by USB
like this Canon 740 HS it doesn't like being connected to the USB port because
it tends to try and charge the internal battery and that says you've drawn too
much current so with this device I can power these device from a pub a bank
with a lightning connector on here and it means I can charge the camera and
power up this unit at the same time so I don't get that issue when I'm trying to
capture images off the certain Porter for example so let's set up and I'll
show you how to transfer the images and then I'll suggest another method you
might want to consider if you've got a lot of images and a lot of video that
you want to store onto a portable hard drive
so here we have the complete cat needed to
transfer the images from the SD card which is in this asset 200 to the Apple
iPhone so the main piece of equipment here is the Apple lightning to USB
adapter and for the FSA 200 or any other camera providing you have the USB
connection lead with a USB connector you can actually transfer the images from
the device to the iPhone so I'll connect up the cable into the USB socket this
goes into the Lightning port on the iPhone and then into the USB port on the
F set 200 so now when I turn on the camera the interface between the two
devices should set up a communications protocol so I'll turn on the camera the
camera knows there's a device connected to it and it's asking do you want to
connect in the PC mode or the pic bridge no pic bridges if you're going to
connect to a printer but we want to connect to a PC type device so I'll just
press menu set which selects that option and now you can see it's connecting to
PC and the Apple iPhone will respond by selecting the Photos app and selecting
the import option from you so you can now see we've got images here that we
can import and such the video as well so we'll select all of these images to be
transferred then it's just the case of clicking import and the camera will link
pass those images from the SD card in the camera over the USB link into the
iPhone and that's it the process is now complete let's look at doing that again
this time using the third-party connector rather than the Apple iPhone
adapter so here is the third-party lightning adapter now it does support
USB plus an SD card reader and a micro SD card
slot but it also has the opportunity here to plug in a charging lead that we
had known use with your phone so got you to charge your phone and power any
peripherals that are attached to this device so if you've got a camera which
takes quite a high current then you can use this to pop off the camera and the
iPhone and you don't get the warning that the USB can't supply enough power
so as before this just plugs directly into the Lightning port and the USB will
connect to the USB socket again once the camera establish this connection you
will see the usual request to select PC or pic bridge we're gonna select PC
again and that will bring up the folders up on the iPhone and again take us to
that import mode so what I'm going to do is just select the a couple of those and
the video just to transfer them again click import import the ones that are
selected and again the camera will transfer those files over to your Apple
iPhone and that's the import completed so if you were to go into your albums
you could actually see on your camera roll the ones that you've imported and
the video as well so that is a simple process of how to transfer the files
from the FC 200 via the USB cable of course you could take out the SD card
and plug it into the reader and gacks a slightly faster transfer as you're not
using the USB link you're using a direct connection to the iPhone but as extra
backup you can get these devices which are basically a lightning to USB adapter
but inside here is a slot where you can put a micro SD card so I've got a 64 gig
micro SD card in there so when I plug this device into the iPhone so if I open
the app that's associated with a storage device which is called tech cue
so these are the options you get with the tech coup you drive so you can
actually use it for a external drive for the phone so you could actually record
from the camera to the device both video and stills or as oh we're going to do
here we're going to backup the photo so if I select photo backup
you've got camera roll backup or camera roll restore so if you put your images
on here and you wanted to get them back you can actually transfer them or you
can actually transfer images through this device on your computer and then
transfer them to the iPhone by using the restore so we're going to use the camera
roll back up so that will back up all the photos that are in the camera roll
and transfer them over to the you drive so this is a useful device if you wanted
to transfer the images and video from your iPhone onto the microSD card that's
in here and use that as your archived image so that has transferred all those
files across so the application has now finished let's now look at another way
of backing up your photographs from the FC 202 device which is the file hub so
this is the rough part file hub plus it's a Wi-Fi enabled device you can
actually use the server as root or you connect it to a local LAN or you can
wirelessly connect it to your iPhone to transfer images from the SD card reader
that's in here and you can transfer the images to your smartphone or you can
transfer the images to a device which is plugged into the USB port so in the USB
port you can actually put a portable hard drive or in this case I'm going to
use another SD card in a card reader to act as my external memory but that could
be your external hard disk this will provide enough power to run these
portable hard disks so we would then place the SD card from your camera into
the SD card reader in the device
when we turn on the ruff power hold the button down for three seconds checks the
battery and then initiates the wireless feature of the device so we would go
over to the iPhone and then select the settings to enable us to capture the
Wi-Fi SSID from that device takes about a minute for it to power up and
initialize and we should see the file hub plus appear in the networks
available for connection and that's now just initialized so I can select that
you know got connection I've already set this up it's got a password installed in
there so it's already known that Association so they can go directly into
the file of application and you can see that we've got the SD card and we've got
USB connected so those are the two symbols of tells us we've got an SD card
and we've got an external USB device connected so if I go into file folder
you can see we've got the SD card and we've got the second USB Drive here so
if I went into the SD card
the usual architecture and then those are the files that are on the SD card so
here you can see I've been shooting in RAW so it doesn't recognize these as a
file type but it will still transfer them when we want to transfer them over
to the iPhone so if we go back to the main menu so I'm going to transfer the
DCIM folder over to the external device so if I go to the SD card volume select
that folder
so I've selected the folder that I want to transfer and then you've got the
option now to copy too and we want to go to external storage so on the top line
here we have internal storage I can now select external storage and we want to
go to USB volume one which is the card reader on the external and then we just
do paste and that will transfer those files from the SD card in the reader
across to the external device so that's transferring all those raw
files plus the mp4 video that I shot on that card so you now see that we've gone
into transfer complete so it's transferred all the files from my sd
card from the camera to this SD card on the external USB port you can also
probably see that we've got the iPhone folders available so if I selecting
iPhone rather than the file open plus which would select the SD card reader I
can go to the iPhone folders we can see that this device can access all the
folders on the iPhone that have been created by your other third party out
such as filmic pro or Instagram any of the other apps on the iPhone that record
to their own directories that are not available to you in the folders app so
for example filmic Pro you can see the videos that I've shot so I'm going to
actually transfer this video which is shot on Aaron so I'll transfer that
particular video over to the external drive which is USB volume one and we'll
just paste it into the main directory so it's going to copy that video over which
is MOV file shot on the F set 2500 so this is quite a useful device as it's
got its own inbuilt lithium-ion battery so you can actually use this while
you're on the go you can back it up in the field you can actually use as a
Rooter if you go to a hotel and you want it to a share one of the Ethernet that
might be available in the hotel it's called an ether port so you can actually
connect to their Ethernet or you can use this as a local access point
use it to share your films or whatever that you've got on your SD card so that
would be how you would transfer the folders over from the rough our file hub
plus well that's it for the video I hope you've got some ideas now how you can
transfer the files that are on the SD card either from the camera using the
USB connection cable or by using an external reader plugged into the
necessary adapter for your smartphone be it Android or your iPhone on the Android
systems you've got the OTG cables which allow you to plug in USB devices so
again you've got the facilities to copy across well if you are a new viewer to
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