win xp home sp 3 alienware area 51 notebook. 3 gz 3 gigs ram 60 gig HD. Have
a kodak C 180 camera im trying to load the easy share software for the camera
when it gets to the point where it says to plug in the camera I connect the
cable and the camera turns off. I unplug it the camera turns back on. The
Kodak help support team was completly useless. the camera is new and the easy
share program is the latest. I hope I provided enough.
anyone?
Greg
Can you turn the camera back on wile it's attached to the P/C?
Is the camera battery fully charged and up to snuff?
Finally, Some computers have software compatibility problems with Easy
Share. In general, digital cameras have more than one mode of operation,
and the mode setting may be part of the problem.
The Kodak C180 has a "Pic bridge" mode/function that expects to be
connected directly to a printer via the USB cable. You may need to set
the camera's menu to specific settings to connect to a computer. These
settings are often listed in an addendum or other in-obvious section of
the manual.
One of my cameras (A Kodak) is an example of how a Mfr. can make life
difficult.
The battery door (of all things) must be open if you wish to connect to
a computer. Another camera has a default mode that appears to a computer
as a disk drive, a menu selection option for "print image matching"
(Somewhat like "pic bridge"), and documented in a manual supplement, a
remote control and firmware update mode.
It's usually simpler and more reliable to use a memory card reader and
the memory module from the camera. The transfer is faster, and does not
require that the camera battery be "up to snuff".
Really, really old Kodak cameras had a non standard picture file format
that required the user to use Easy Share or it's predecessors to convert
the pictures to a standard format.
