In the past my laptop had a port for SD and miniSD cards. It worked well. Now my laptop doesn’t have that so I bought a dongle to do the job. Not a big deal
When I use my laptop to load videos to drive it works okay, but then to use them on my phone I have to download them (remember that I edit video on my phone.) It’s an annoying step. It seemed like a good workaround but then I realized that I can hook the dongle up to my phone and just load them to my phone. It works! Simple and Easy!!!
Not so fast. You see if I do that, I then must format the card in my camera. You see the phone loads a bunch of other folders to the card and the camera CANNOT figure it out and freaks out. It will say that it is saving only.. it’s not. SURPRISE.
So this morning i recorded a good bit of video only to find that when I went to upload it, it was nowhere. As in it hadn’t saved anywhere. I could not find anything. I even went so far as to hook it up to my work laptop. No joy.
It’s another step.
It’s also really too bad I got some cool stuff with the old Canon Elph S100. I’m really trying to add some more good stuff to the Vlogs so it’s not just me talking to the camera in my studio or me walking around taking silent video.