This is crap, I feel like its the 2400 baud days.....What's the best way to get photos to Flickr?

 

have you tried the internet?

 

The what?

 

this could be your problem


what size are you photos?

 

Very large (about 50 at 10 MB each) and I have a pro account.

 

gsus, just resize them.

 

Pfft, I want them large because Im using Flickr as my online storage. And Im cool like that.

 

Other than using their tools or juploadr there isn't much to be done but enjoy a beverage of your choice.

http://www.flickr.com/tools/

 

The Microsoft Live Tool is new, I will try that one...

 

What? I have raw files that aren't that big each. WTF format are you using? 50mb per picture? I have used their uploaded to upload 300-500mb at a time

 

Go back to sleep....I said 50 pics at about 10 MB each....

I just get a lot of timeouts....Maybe its my crappy DSL connection...

 

Christ...I've got the canon S5, and even at the largest size they only come in around 3mb...those are huge files!

 

Fu and yes its ur shifty meat pie connection because I do it all the time with no problem. Some of my albums have over 300 pictures and they upload quickly.

 

did you try rebooting?

come on now

 

10mb a picture isn't bad...my RAW files from my D80 are right around 10mb, usually like 9.1mb though...

but yeah, it's your DSL...i have no problems uploading to flickr, but i'm not trying to post 10 meg pics either...but still, DSL (in my experience) tends to slow down over a period of time and if you're passing file sizes like that X 50, you're done...either resize them or get cable internet at the minimum...

and i use flickr's upload app (not their actual website) to post my pics...

 

It is your connection. I use Flickr Uploadr, I used it 3 times in the last few days. Twice had almost 100MB upload with no problem and pretty fast. You're going to have to do it in batches.

 

Well, my wife was downloading all of MTV, so I cut that and it helped...

 

Suite. If she downloads it all, does that mean it will no longer be available on TV?

I was uploading photos yesterday through the website and it was going smoothly. I ended up canceling after about 40 images (~5 MB each). 10 MB jpgs are HUGE.

 

Its just a Canon P&S set to the best setting

 

Huge? Take them in .tif mode and then you can say huge Not as good as raw, but better than jpg

 

I'm not saying that is huge for a TIF of any other file format. However, for a JPEG, it is HUGE.

 

Ahh, I see your point...well said.

 

Am I doing something wrong to have 10 MB jpg files here?

 

Which camera are you shooting with? 10mb jpegs from a p&s are pretty big.

 

Probably not doing anything wrong, just using the highest possible setting on a 12? mega-pixel camera

Just for the heck of it, and since you have plenty of free time on your hands, try taking several pictures of the same thing at different camera resolutions and see how they compare. Maybe shooting at 8 MP might be more than "good enough" for most of your shots.

 

Its a Canon SD900....

 

So it's 10 MP. That still seems a little high since full resolution jpgs from the 30D (8MP) at the highest quality (eported from RAW in Lightroom) are all under 7 MB.

 

full-size JPG's out of the 5D are ~3-4MB each....

 

wait.. forgot about something. noise. smooth pics = low file size. noisy pics = high.

curious, what ISO range are your pics usually at?

 

They resolutions for that camera is...

640 x 480 (Small),
1,600 x 1,200 (Medium 3),
2,272 x 1,704 (Medium 2),
2,816 x 2,112 (Medium 1),
3,648 x 2,736 (Large),
3,648 x 2,048 (Widescreen)

 

I'll play with the settings tomorrow

 

nice can o' worms, eh?

 

Auto....

 

yea that's why I asked what range are they at... part deux..

do you take a lot of night shots? night shots at auto on a P&S = certain high ISO = certain high file size...

I guess at this point we're all just trying to figure out how you're getting 10MB files out of a SD900.

 

If you're getting good shots at high rez, I'd keep shooting that way. That way you have the biggest files to play with. You may want to look at keeping the largest files on an external drive and then put 3mb files on line so your family can d/l them if they want.

 

The shots are good and since Flickr lets you choose which size, its fine for them.