Download Photos from Camera

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I tried the program which came with the camera(Canon) but its bloated. I
tried the one which came with Windows it has problem recognizing the
vertical photos. Is there an app which can do this? Has anyone got
Xnview or Irfan View to do this?

Thanks
 
I tried the program which came with the camera(Canon) but its bloated. I
tried the one which came with Windows it has problem recognizing the
vertical photos. Is there an app which can do this? Has anyone got
Xnview or Irfan View to do this?

Thanks
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You can just PLUG the USB cord into
the Camera AND the Computer and
It will show up in MY COMPUTER
as a UNIQUE drive. Click on that
Drive and all your photos will be
sitting there and you can copy them
to a file of your choice.

If Canon camera's can't do that, they
must be cheap sh*t third world technology.
Oh, wait. All of those cameras are made
for slave wages. I'm sorry. I forgot.

I use a Casio myself. 4 megapixel with
many bells and whistles. I can't wait
til they come out with about a 10 megapixel
camera. Woohooo!

DB
 
At date Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:58:45 +1100, rdt ([email protected]) wrote in
for newsgroup said:
I tried the program which came with the camera(Canon) but its bloated. I
tried the one which came with Windows it has problem recognizing the
vertical photos. Is there an app which can do this? Has anyone got
Xnview or Irfan View to do this?
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I have a Sony camera, and when I plug the camera it is detected as a
disk drive (G:, since I have 2 partitions on E: and F:).

I can then copy the files and work with any image tool.
 
rdt said:
I tried the program which came with the camera(Canon) but its
bloated. I tried the one which came with Windows it has problem
recognizing the vertical photos. Is there an app which can do this?
Has anyone got Xnview or Irfan View to do this?

Thanks
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You can use Irfanview (and other graphic programs).
The Twain driver for the camera must be installed for this.

Irfanview:
File > select twain source > select your camera.
File > Aquire/Batch Scanning > Ok
The Twain software will take over.

I do both picture downloading as well as flatbed scanning this way.
My twain driver software (Canon) has extended possibilities, including batch
downloading and much more.

H.N.
 
Don said:
You can just PLUG the USB cord into
the Camera AND the Computer and
It will show up in MY COMPUTER
as a UNIQUE drive. Click on that
Drive and all your photos will be
sitting there and you can copy them
to a file of your choice.
Click to expand...


I am looking for one that knows which images are the vertical ones. The
canon app can do this.
 
Renan said:
At date Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:58:45 +1100, rdt ([email protected]) wrote in



I have a Sony camera, and when I plug the camera it is detected as a
disk drive (G:, since I have 2 partitions on E: and F:).

I can then copy the files and work with any image tool.
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Can it detect the vertical images?
 
I am looking for one that knows which images are the vertical ones. The
canon app can do this.
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What do you mean by "vertical images"? On XP-Pro-SP2 I use the
Windows 'Scanner & Camera Wizard' to d/l my Canon images via USB
and it makes no difference whether the pix are vertical or horizontal.
The camera shows up as a USB device when connected.
 
Vertical images (portrait as opposed to landscape) are where the height
is longer than the width. The Canon app knows which are the portrait
pics and automatically rotates them when transferring. Windows 'Scanner
& Camera Wizard' doesn't do this.
 
I am looking for one that knows which images are the vertical ones. The
canon app can do this.
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Think there may be some misunderstanding here.
Are you asking for a program which will "see" both vertical and horizontal
taken photos, and automatically, without further involvement from you, turn
the vertical ones upright? If so I can't help. (may explain why the Canon
proggie seems bloated)
Most, if not all, will "see" both H and V photos, and (in Irfanview and
probably similar in most other programs) under 'VIEW' rotate Left, or
rotate Right, allow you to view, edit and print it correctly.
 
rdt said:
I tried the program which came with the camera(Canon) but its bloated.
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Agreed. My suggestion: buy a card reader and use that for transferring your
photos to your computer. It makes the process as transparent as it gets,
and you'll save your camera's battery power.

As for recognizing portrait from landscape pictures: some cameras embed
this information in the EXIF metadata, and IIRC IrfanView can be configured
to read this information, performing rotation where necessary.

Good luck
Wald
 
I tried the program which came with the camera(Canon) but its bloated. I
tried the one which came with Windows it has problem recognizing the
vertical photos. Is there an app which can do this? Has anyone got
Xnview or Irfan View to do this?
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Well, there seems to be no real standard for indication of
portrait vs. landscape pictures insite a .jpg file.

I use explorer to move the pictures from my camera onto my
harddisk. And then Irfanview to put them right.
(Select the first picture. Shift-J if you need to change the
picture's direction, space to select the next picture.)

Advantage to this methode: Irfanview makes a lossless move and
leaves the pictures in a format that any other program can read
correctly.
 
So it cannot do it automatically. Suprised other programs cannot read
this metadata and apply the appropiate rotation
 
So it cannot do it automatically. Suprised other programs cannot read
this metadata and apply the appropiate rotation
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Yes, it can. Under the menu selections Options --> Properties -->
JPG/PCD/GIF, there's a box you tick if you want it done automatically.
 
Vertical images (portrait as opposed to landscape) are where the height
is longer than the width. The Canon app knows which are the portrait
pics and automatically rotates them when transferring. Windows 'Scanner
& Camera Wizard' doesn't do this.
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OK I thought that's what you meant. My Canon S70 camera has a user
setting which displays vertical images in their upright position when
viewed on the camera LCD screen. Even if I didn't use this and d/l
an image onto the PC, I can always use Irfanview to turn the picture
round and save it as such. I can't see why being able to view them
in an upright position in the s/w which handles the d/l is so vital.
 
rdt said:
I tried the program which came with the camera(Canon) but its
bloated. I tried the one which came with Windows it has problem
recognizing the vertical photos. Is there an app which can do this?
Has anyone got Xnview or Irfan View to do this?

Thanks
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Connect the camera to the computer and it will be accessible as a drive.
Better still, use a card reader, which will appear as a drive, but will
usually let you transfer the images to your computer much faster than
directly connecting the camera.
In XnView:-
Navigate to the drive that represents the camera or card reader.
Select all the images (Edit > Select All or Ctrl+A)
Then either move (Edit > Move to Folder or Alt+M) or copy (Edit > Copy
to Folder or Alt+C) to the folder you want.
By default images taken in portrait mode will be automatically rotated.
If they're not, go to Tools > Options, click on "Read" and tick "Rotate
images based on EXIF orientation". If a shot has been taken with the
camera tilted a long way up or down the sensor in the camera won't be
able to tell which way you held the camera, so if any image is still
rotated the wrong way, right click it and choose the correct rotation
under "JPEG Lossless transformations".
 
Gerard said:
Well, there seems to be no real standard for indication of
portrait vs. landscape pictures insite a .jpg file.
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All but the very oldest or most basic cameras will have the image
rotation stored as part of the EXIF information.
 
All but the very oldest or most basic cameras will have the image
rotation stored as part of the EXIF information.
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Sure. Most most reading software is not even EXIF aware.
Let alone, capable of auto rotating the presentation if EXIF says
it should be portrait mode :-)
 
I am looking for one that knows which images are the vertical ones. The
canon app can do this.
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You REALLY need to learn to use Windows Explorer. It has thumbnails, and you
can instantly see which are portrait and which are landscape. It's the best
photo cataloger you can ever ask for. It will automatically download
pictures from your camera, and catalog them by year, month, and day.

Use a simple program like FastStone Image Viewer to rotate, crop, and do
other simple editing.
 
--You can just PLUG the USB cord into
the Camera AND the Computer and
It will show up in MY COMPUTER
as a UNIQUE drive. Click on that
Drive and all your photos will be
sitting there and you can copy them
to a file of your choice.


DB
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Same here with a Nikon Coolpix 5600! XP Home SP1.
But there is also some software that came with my HP printer.
(I wouldn't buy another HP, but while this one works, I'll use it -
HP 3-in-one printer, scanner, fax).

I just plug the cord that came with the camera into a USB
slot and up comes the Windows screen with a list of choices
(copy to folder, transfer to...do nothing, use this, use that, blah, blah blah).

Helen
 
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