To the chimpers!!!!

[RockstarPhotography]

when your setting up lighting for a shot and "chimping" the screen, do you delete the photos right away in your camera after looking at them or leave them? I've been trying to get in the habit of deleting them cause i'm tired of going through them all and deleting them prior to pp. Just curious as to what others do.

 

[e.rose]

I don't delete anything off my cards ever. I format them at the end.

If I'm taking test shots before a shoot, and I know for *sure* that I'm not going to end up needed any of those shots for anything, I'll reformat the card again before actually starting. But I don't delete individual photos.

 

[RockstarPhotography]

I just get sick of going through them during editing. The ones where I was testing lighting and getting setup.....drives me nuts...lol

 

[e.rose]

It only takes 2 seconds to scroll past them... doesn't bother me.

 

[Drake]

Well, it pretty much depends. When I am on a trip lasting a couple days, I usually delete shots I don't like/need straight away to save some card space, as no matter how much memory I bring, it's usually not enough. When I'm home, I just don't bother. It's faster to get rid of them in LR.

 

[480sparky39 38]

Two reasons I use the on-board delete function:

1. It's a test shot. I don't care about the image. It may be to test the flash or something. Shoot, test, delete.
2. I totally screwed the image up to begin with. Maybe it's a daylight photo, and I'm still on Manual, f/4, 3 seconds from last night.

 

[redtippmann]

I have two cards when I shoot. Card one sends them to my computer/iPad. Card 2 saves the RAW file. I keep the 2nd card out of the slot until I'm ready to shoot. But i always keep the 1st card in. That way I still see the .jpg on the computer but I don't need the raw file of that.

 

[RauschPhotography]

I usually delete them.. Once I know everything's sound, there's no real point of keeping them around. They'll just end up getting deleted eventually, so I just get rid of them right away to make everything smoother.

 

[Studio7Four]

I don't delete until I'm viewing on my computer monitor. There are times when an image will seem like garbage at first impression on my camera's LCD screen but when viewed on the much larger monitor has something redeemable. Besides, I'll admit that I don't like to take the time to perform the few steps to delete in-camera.

 

[kundalini]

I just get sick of going through them during editing. The ones where I was testing lighting and getting setup.....drives me nuts...lol

Using a hand held light meter to set exposure before the first click of the shutter will greatly reduce the number of those test shots.

 

[Overread16 4]

Personally I've never deleted in the camera body - even for light test shots. I find it much faster just to skim over them in editing (a turn of the mouse wheel and its gone) and it also means that I don't end up accidentally deleting the wrong shot or spending ages fiddling around with the LCD trying to tell its ultimate quality on a screen that just can't do it that well.

Also on the 400D the delete shot and delete all shot buttons are right next to each other - ever so easy for your finger to slip and then the card is out of action until you can get some restoration software onto it. The 7D improves on this (and I suspect other newer bodies might as well) by not having delete all in the delete menu- but still I don't delete shots when shooting out in the field. Only time is if I end up running out of space and don't have any more cards (not had that happen yet), but then taking time to delete will end up missing shots anyway - so more cards is the way forward.

 

[RockstarPhotography]

Ok. for those that don't delete. Do you use cannon? Ive never picked up a cannon before so i'm not familiar with the system, maybe its harder then just pushing one button on the back to delete the photo?

 

[kundalini]

I use Nikons and don't delete on-the-fly. BTW, that would actually be pressing one button twice to delete the image on Nikon.

When I import in Lightroom, some of the obvious bad/test shots can be extracted from the lot before importing.

I also use a grey card, so at least one of my test shots is valuable.

 

[Davor]

I have the habit of deleting as i look through them, i don't know why i guess its something that just stuck to me. I guess when im showing someone the pictures after i don't want them to see any bad ones.

 

[PASM]

That's something I dislike about the digital 'awareness'. Take someone's picture..and they want to see it, straight away, on the back of the camera. I can tell it's a nice shot, but they're pulling faces and saying "oh no!..delete it delete it"

Film shooters retain the prerogative.

I have the habit of deleting as i look through them, i don't know why i guess its something that just stuck to me. I guess when im showing someone the pictures after i don't want them to see any bad ones.