image transfer software

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Hi...... is there any software available to transfer images from my
camera to the computer? I don't want software for viewing or
manipulating the images, just to transfer.

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Newfdog
 
Hi...... is there any software available to transfer images from my
camera to the computer? I don't want software for viewing or
manipulating the images, just to transfer.
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That depends entirely on what camera you have, what kind of memory the
images get stored on and what hardware you have available in your
computer.

If the memory is SD or CF, there are usb adapters. Just take the card
out of the camera, put it into the adapter, plug the adapter into a
USB port and copy the files.

Your camera probably came with a serial or USB cable and software to
transfer the images.

There are laptops that have card slots built in, so you don't need
adapters.

(This is an "it depends" answer. :) )
 
Al said:
That depends entirely on what camera you have, what kind of memory the
images get stored on and what hardware you have available in your
computer.

If the memory is SD or CF, there are usb adapters. Just take the card
out of the camera, put it into the adapter, plug the adapter into a
USB port and copy the files.

Your camera probably came with a serial or USB cable and software to
transfer the images.

There are laptops that have card slots built in, so you don't need
adapters.

(This is an "it depends" answer. :) )
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Ok Al ......... here's the deal I know about everything you said. The
camera connects by USB. I have the manufacturers software, however it is
severely bloated. I just want a program to take the pictures from the
camera and put them in a folder. The camera is a HP M407. The laptop is
running Windows 2000 Pro it does not have a card reader. I use cam2pc on
a windows xp based computer but for some reason it does not work with
windows 2000.

Newfdog
 
Ok Al ......... here's the deal I know about everything you said. The
camera connects by USB. I have the manufacturers software, however it is
severely bloated. I just want a program to take the pictures from the
camera and put them in a folder. The camera is a HP M407. The laptop is
running Windows 2000 Pro it does not have a card reader. I use cam2pc on
a windows xp based computer but for some reason it does not work with
windows 2000.
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Card readers are about $20. The interface is proprietary, so I doubt
you'll find freeware, unless someone in your position has the
knowledge and desperation to write it.

Try plugging the camera into an XP machine and see if it's recognized.
There are an awful lot of little USB drivers in XP. You might be
pleasantly surprised. If the camera appears as a drive, you're all
set. Then you just have to install XP. :)
 
Rich_on 4-Apr-2006 said:
Ok Al ......... here's the deal I know about everything you said. The
camera connects by USB. I have the manufacturers software, however it is
severely bloated. I just want a program to take the pictures from the
camera and put them in a folder. The camera is a HP M407. The laptop is
running Windows 2000 Pro it does not have a card reader. I use cam2pc on
a windows xp based computer but for some reason it does not work with
windows 2000.
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It should connect and show up as another hard drive and files can be
transferred with windoze explorer.
If possible try it on a WinXP machine and see if it shows as another drive.
According to specs the M407 has a USB2 connection so you possibly need the
updated USB drivers found in Win2000 Service Pack 4.
 
Hi...... is there any software available to transfer images from my
camera to the computer?
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If you have the USB drivers of your camera installed, your camera should
appear as a disk station and all you'd need would be a file manager.
A more elegant way would be Irfanview.
 
If you have the USB drivers of your camera installed, your camera should
appear as a disk station and all you'd need would be a file manager.
A more elegant way would be Irfanview.
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AFAICR I didn't need to install a damn thing externally under either
Windows ME or Windows XP Pro to get the PCs to recognise my DiMAGE Z10
camera. Just plugged it into a handy USB port (old version of USB on
ME, new on XP) and in each case the computer "found" it and did
whatever it needed to do automagically.

I simply drag and drop with Windows Explorer. Even use Win Explorer
to delete the images on the Z10 after copying to the HDD or whatever.
(Being careful to leave the most recent image there so the damn thing
doesn't start counting from "PICT0001" again. :)

Cheers, Phred.
 
AFAICR I didn't need to install a damn thing externally under either
Windows ME or Windows XP Pro to get the PCs to recognise my DiMAGE Z10
camera. Just plugged it into a handy USB port (old version of USB on
ME, new on XP) and in each case the computer "found" it and did
whatever it needed to do automagically.
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USB devices tell the computer what they are. If the camera says "I'm
a storage device", the computer mounts it as a drive. If it says "I'm
a camera", the computer connects it as a camera. If it says "I'm a
USB device that comes with a driver", the computer asks you for the
driver disk.

That one camera is a storage device doesn't mean that all cameras are.
 
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