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[ot] Camera Question
I'm hoping someone here knows something about digital cameras...
I finally broke down and bought a modern digital camera - Canon A550. I know they're not the latest/greatest, but it was on sale and had some features I wanted (like a viewfinder - have you ever tried to take daytime photos when the sun is washing out the view screen on the back of the camera??? it really *is* point and shoot!). The camera manual specifies various OS the download software will work with. My home computer is ancient - it runs off of Win98 (hey, it works just fine for me). Not Win98 SE mind you, plain old Win98 with various and sundry service packs and updates applied (including the famous SP2). Here's the question/problem. The camera manual says the software will work with Win98 SE. Most of the time it's not a problem, and it will work on my computer fine. But every once in a while I run across something where it *is* a problem and it won't install/run. Anyone have a clue as to if Win98 (SP2) and Canon A550 camera download software are compatible? Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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"Jeanne Hedge" wrote in message
... I'm hoping someone here knows something about digital cameras... I finally broke down and bought a modern digital camera - Canon A550. I know they're not the latest/greatest, but it was on sale and had some features I wanted (like a viewfinder - have you ever tried to take daytime photos when the sun is washing out the view screen on the back of the camera??? it really *is* point and shoot!). The camera manual specifies various OS the download software will work with. My home computer is ancient - it runs off of Win98 (hey, it works just fine for me). Not Win98 SE mind you, plain old Win98 with various and sundry service packs and updates applied (including the famous SP2). Here's the question/problem. The camera manual says the software will work with Win98 SE. Most of the time it's not a problem, and it will work on my computer fine. But every once in a while I run across something where it *is* a problem and it won't install/run. Anyone have a clue as to if Win98 (SP2) and Canon A550 camera download software are compatible? Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com Here's a web site that may have some answers for you: http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digi...html?qid=11436 |
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:01:40 -0400, Jeanne Hedge
wrote: I'm hoping someone here knows something about digital cameras... I finally broke down and bought a modern digital camera - Canon A550. I know they're not the latest/greatest, but it was on sale and had some features I wanted (like a viewfinder - have you ever tried to take daytime photos when the sun is washing out the view screen on the back of the camera??? it really *is* point and shoot!). The camera manual specifies various OS the download software will work with. My home computer is ancient - it runs off of Win98 (hey, it works just fine for me). Not Win98 SE mind you, plain old Win98 with various and sundry service packs and updates applied (including the famous SP2). Here's the question/problem. The camera manual says the software will work with Win98 SE. Most of the time it's not a problem, and it will work on my computer fine. But every once in a while I run across something where it *is* a problem and it won't install/run. Anyone have a clue as to if Win98 (SP2) and Canon A550 camera download software are compatible? No idea. Have you tried installing the software and hooking up the camera, to see what results you get? It is very unlikely that a software malfunction would do anything to the camera; the result would be only that you couldn't readily download the pictures. If that were to happen, you could probably work out an arrangement with a friend where you would periodically use their computer to download pictures onto a CD, then transfer the pictures from the CD onto your computer. The pictures are likely to be too large to fit onto a floppy. Another possibility, if your computer has a USB port, would be to use someone else's computer to transfer the pictures onto a "thumb drive". -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:53:37 -0400, "Magic Mood Jeep"
wrote: Here's a web site that may have some answers for you: http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digi...html?qid=11436 Thanks MMJ. You know, you can search and search and search for something online and it will never turn up for you. Someone else goes looking for the same thing and finds it right away. :/ Anyway, it appears I have hope (until I can scrape together enough $$$ for a new computer Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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"Jeanne Hedge" wrote in message
... On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:53:37 -0400, "Magic Mood Jeep" wrote: Here's a web site that may have some answers for you: http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digi...html?qid=11436 Thanks MMJ. You know, you can search and search and search for something online and it will never turn up for you. Someone else goes looking for the same thing and finds it right away. :/ Anyway, it appears I have hope (until I can scrape together enough $$$ for a new computer Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com That's why my older brother always bugs me to search for things online - he's inept at them. Latest one was to find a person by a certain last name, on a certain street, as they had found a wallet at the local Home Depot, and wanted to make sure that they still resided there before they mailed it (anonymously) back. Apparently they couldn't find anything in their local phone book LOL |
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:56:37 -0500, John F. Eldredge
wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:01:40 -0400, Jeanne Hedge wrote: I'm hoping someone here knows something about digital cameras... I finally broke down and bought a modern digital camera - Canon A550. I know they're not the latest/greatest, but it was on sale and had some features I wanted (like a viewfinder - have you ever tried to take daytime photos when the sun is washing out the view screen on the back of the camera??? it really *is* point and shoot!). The camera manual specifies various OS the download software will work with. My home computer is ancient - it runs off of Win98 (hey, it works just fine for me). Not Win98 SE mind you, plain old Win98 with various and sundry service packs and updates applied (including the famous SP2). Here's the question/problem. The camera manual says the software will work with Win98 SE. Most of the time it's not a problem, and it will work on my computer fine. But every once in a while I run across something where it *is* a problem and it won't install/run. Anyone have a clue as to if Win98 (SP2) and Canon A550 camera download software are compatible? No idea. Have you tried installing the software and hooking up the camera, to see what results you get? It is very unlikely that a software malfunction would do anything to the camera; the result would be only that you couldn't readily download the pictures. If that were to happen, you could probably work out an arrangement with a friend where you would periodically use their computer to download pictures onto a CD, then transfer the pictures from the CD onto your computer. The pictures are likely to be too large to fit onto a floppy. Another possibility, if your computer has a USB port, would be to use someone else's computer to transfer the pictures onto a "thumb drive". I use Win98 SE at work, and found out it really doesn't like thumb drives. I purchased one so I could transfer files between there and home, but it won't recognize it. :P There are 4 differeent USB ports on that system, and none work with it. The system is a 2.6 ghz Intel chip w/250 gigabyte hard drive and 1 gig ram (and 500 of that ram is useless because Win98 doesn't acknowledge ram over 500 mb. :P) We need to upgrade our OS, but need to find Win200 Pro, as one of our programs won't run under XP or Vista. |
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You don't need any software. Just get a card reader (they are less than
$10) and take the memory stick out of your camera and put it into the card reader (connected to your computer by USB). Then you can drag and drop your pics onto your hard drive in Windows Explorer. -- Britta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson Jeanne Hedge wrote: I'm hoping someone here knows something about digital cameras... I finally broke down and bought a modern digital camera - Canon A550. I know they're not the latest/greatest, but it was on sale and had some features I wanted (like a viewfinder - have you ever tried to take daytime photos when the sun is washing out the view screen on the back of the camera??? it really *is* point and shoot!). The camera manual specifies various OS the download software will work with. My home computer is ancient - it runs off of Win98 (hey, it works just fine for me). Not Win98 SE mind you, plain old Win98 with various and sundry service packs and updates applied (including the famous SP2). Here's the question/problem. The camera manual says the software will work with Win98 SE. Most of the time it's not a problem, and it will work on my computer fine. But every once in a while I run across something where it *is* a problem and it won't install/run. Anyone have a clue as to if Win98 (SP2) and Canon A550 camera download software are compatible? Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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"Jeanne Hedge" wrote in message ... I'm hoping someone here knows something about digital cameras... I finally broke down and bought a modern digital camera - Canon A550. I know they're not the latest/greatest, but it was on sale and had some features I wanted (like a viewfinder - have you ever tried to take daytime photos when the sun is washing out the view screen on the back of the camera??? it really *is* point and shoot!). The camera manual specifies various OS the download software will work with. My home computer is ancient - it runs off of Win98 (hey, it works just fine for me). Not Win98 SE mind you, plain old Win98 with various and sundry service packs and updates applied (including the famous SP2). Here's the question/problem. The camera manual says the software will work with Win98 SE. Most of the time it's not a problem, and it will work on my computer fine. But every once in a while I run across something where it *is* a problem and it won't install/run. Anyone have a clue as to if Win98 (SP2) and Canon A550 camera download software are compatible? Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com I suggest that you get a card reader and use that to download pictures instead of downloading directly from the camera. They are inexpensive, easy to use, much faster than direct connection to the camera, and avoid draining your camera batteries. MaryL |
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badwilson wrote:
You don't need any software. Just get a card reader (they are less than $10) and take the memory stick out of your camera and put it into the card reader (connected to your computer by USB). Then you can drag and drop your pics onto your hard drive in Windows Explorer. Just a warning - this might work fine for you or it might not. Many card readers also won't work on Win 98 SE. I found that out the hard way when I first got my digital camera . (Hi Britta, long time no see!) |
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 09:01:43 +0800, "badwilson"
wrote: You don't need any software. Just get a card reader (they are less than $10) and take the memory stick out of your camera and put it into the card reader (connected to your computer by USB). Then you can drag and drop your pics onto your hard drive in Windows Explorer. Thanks for the idea, Britta, but that won't work on my machine. My experience when I've tried that in the past was much as Helen Wheels said -- the card reader is expecting certain OS and won't work if it doesn't get what it wants. All I kept getting was "I don't like your OS, go install something modern" error messages ^_^;;; Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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