▲ 6 r/a6700
KR Flower Market with the A6700 + Tamron 17-70
u/thetejasagrawal — 9 hours ago
u/thetejasagrawal
▲ 22 r/SonyAlpha
No good Mac import tool for Sony α, so I built one
The macOS default, Image Capture, has been pretending Sony video doesn't exist since OS X 10.5. JPGs and RAWs come over fine. But PRIVATE/M4ROOT/CLIP/ — where every XAVC clip lives — gets silently skipped. You don't notice until a client asks where the b-roll is.
So every shoot I'd do two passes. Image Capture for stills, then drag PRIVATE and MP_ROOT out of Finder, then manually reorganize because the layout is gone. Eventually got annoying enough that I built something.
cardgrab does it in one pass. Native Mac app, open source, signed and notarized so first-launch just works.
What it gets right that Image Capture doesn't:
- Pulls everything the camera writes — XAVC video, AVCHD, raw, jpg,
.XMLand.THMsidecars - Real video thumbnails via macOS Quick Look, not generic film icons
- Grid grouped by shoot date so you can actually see what's on the card
- Click / shift-click / ⌘A to choose exactly what to import
- Defaults to one folder per shoot date. Customize the template if you want camera or kind nested
- Kernel-level copy via
fcopyfilewith 4 parallel workers. My α7 IV ARWs come over at around 220 MB/s on a UHS-II reader - Hard-coded refusal to write to the source card. Formatting stays an in-camera step.
Apple Silicon and Intel .dmgs here: https://github.com/thetejasagrawal/CardGrab/releases/latest
Optional: brew install gphoto2 and it'll pull files over USB-PTP directly without you taking the card out. Slower at around 30 MB/s but useful when you can't be bothered.
Built it for my own α6700 workflow. If your body writes a layout I haven't tested or a format breaks, open an issue and I'll fix it. MIT licensed, made using claudecode
u/thetejasagrawal — 9 hours ago
I got annoyed that most Pinterest board downloaders either make you pay, cap the number of images, or look sketchy as hell.
So I built a free, open source Pinterest extension that lets you download an entire board.
No paywall. No weird credits. No locked features.
It is for people who actually want their references, moodboards, design inspo, research, whatever, without doing the dumb right click save dance 300 times.
Built it mostly because I needed it myself and figured other people probably had the same problem.
If you want to try it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pinterest-localboard/ffalngabgmaancacaigapmkkaoalaama
Github Link: https://github.com/thetejasagrawal/Pinterest-LocalBoard
u/thetejasagrawal — 26 days ago