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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Downloader Pro
Vendor: Breeze Systems
Purpose: Downloads images from camera to computer with renaming and GPS tagging
Figure 1.1
Downloader Pro’s GPS Settings dialog box, with Track Log feature.
Description
Downloader Pro enables photographers to transfer images from a card reader or camera
to a computer, to rename them and, if necessary, to tag them with GPS coordinate information.
The program also reads shooting metadata from all major formats.
Without a facility like Downloader Pro, a DSLR dictates the names of the files and folders,
which are usually incomprehensible and give no indication of their contents. By
renaming the files at an early stage you can group them together for batch processing,
such as sharpening or curves. Downloader fully integrates with the vendor’s RAW
processor BreezeBrowser Pro, allowing these tasks to be accomplished in tandem.
Downloader Pro has full support for portable hard drives like Delkin PicturePad,
NixVue Vista, and ImageBank, and is good at identifying the duplicate images that these
devices generate every time you insert a memory card. It downloads directly from nearly
all Canon DSLRs, and allows you to synchronize the clock on a Canon camera with
the one on your PC.