Another digital camera question

taken with a Nikon D100and AF Nikkor 35-70 2.8D

Ah, but it is possible, is it?
You could always get a new card everytime she fills one up! Think of it as being film in a different price bracket…:D

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
Can the printer be connected directly to the computer – I don’t know the model, but some one might.
That would be easier, yes?

Flood.

Yes if you are a normal human being, no if you are my wife! As I mentioned before, she does not want to get involved with the computer.

Can the printer be connected directly to the computer – I don’t know the model, but some one might.
That would be easier, yes?

Flood.

Originally posted by GarryB
Getting back to the original topic wouldn’t it make more sense to buy a standalone DVD player (you can get them for less than $70 NZ here these days so you should be able to get them as cheap) and just save all of her photos to CD, so instead of spending money on paper and ink printing them all out she can look at them on your TV for the cost of about 50c per CD?
She could write down the ones she wants so you could put hundreds of photos on each CD and bore the relatives to tears with a small stack of CDs rather than lots of heavy photo albums…

Been there, got the badge…but it wasn’t enough, she wants to be able to print out those pictures from the CD I made a month or so ago. That’s why I had this problem.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Is your mum in Eastenders playing Alfie Moon’s nanna ? I think I recognise the voice ? 😀

What the devil you talking about? This ‘Eastenders’ that you speak of, it is something evil, yes?
What is the phases of an Alfie Moon? Could we see it at this time of the year – if this cloud was gone?
My TV is solar-powered at this time of the year…:rolleyes:

Flood.

Is your mum in Eastenders playing Alfie Moon’s nanna ? I think I recognise the voice ? 😀

As my Mum said…
“Very nice, dear, but I can’t stick the tele in the album…”

Its true, you can’t.

Flood.

Er… can’t you just connect the camera to the telly and play the pictures that way ?

Originally posted by GarryB
…and bore the relatives to tears with a small stack of CDs rather than lots of heavy photo albums…

If, of course, the relatives have a computer with a DVD facility, if the monitor is big enough for the swarm, if the computer is well placed for people to gather around, etc.
Older people will always prefer the physical print in their hands – if they are not afraid of their souls being captured.

Flood.

Getting back to the original topic wouldn’t it make more sense to buy a standalone DVD player (you can get them for less than $70 NZ here these days so you should be able to get them as cheap) and just save all of her photos to CD, so instead of spending money on paper and ink printing them all out she can look at them on your TV for the cost of about 50c per CD?
She could write down the ones she wants so you could put hundreds of photos on each CD and bore the relatives to tears with a small stack of CDs rather than lots of heavy photo albums…

A first class ticket to Nottingham please !

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Ahhhh……………………..

Chooooo?

Got a cold, Ren?

Flood.

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If your wife still can’t understand why she can’t store images on the card then use the old glass of water trick – fill it to the brim and ask her how she is going to get more in there without losing something! That’s what I did to the boss-type who couldn’t understand why we needed more flashcards while still traveling around with the previous days images filling them up…

Flood. [/B]

Ahhhh……………………..

I like the glass of water analogy!

The printer has a built in card reader for doing precisely what I am doing. Because of your experiences I am making sure I only use photos that haven’t been edited before returning the from storage on my hard disk to the card for printing.

Originally posted by wysiwyg
Perhaps I should explain the reason for my question. I bought my wife a Kodak digital camera with a 128mb MMC card for Christmas. I also bought her a HP2179 all in one printer/scanner. She hates using the computer so the idea is that she takes pictures on the camera and then transfers the card to the printer to print off her photos without having to go near the computer. She can do this fine but doesn’t understand why she can’t store thousands of pictures on the card. I download her pictures onto my PC and then save them on disc. What I needed to do was to be able to put them back on the MMC card so she can print them out again when she wants.

Work with me on this… The card is taken out of the camera and connected to the printer? Or is it connected using one of those Kodak docking station things?
I ask since, initially, we took our flashcards out of the camera, put it into the card reader, opened it up and worked on it from there; saving adjustments and caption details etc straight on to the card. The finished image would then be sent off to the bulletin board and we were told to keep the card full for a day or so – just in case there were any problems! Once I had adjusted images on the card I personally never used that card again until the contents were deleted or the card reformatted. Of course information has been sent out to us saying do this, don’t do that… (Being in the communication business there is an awful lot of non-communicating going on – it took them 3 months to let me know that the mileage rate had gone up; the memo got sent out in the internal email by the same woman to whom I complained about the fact that my email address wasn’t working! She came to see me personally when the rate suddenly dropped below what I was still claiming, pre-increase, since I was now trying to ‘defraud’ the company!) As far as I am aware we are now not supposed to work on images on the card; it could be that the camera tries to interrogate the card to find out the number of frames/free space on it – something as simple as that. I do know that when I had a problem with a card and it was sent back to the company’s digital photography specialist – read anorak – he was able to tell me which computer I had checked the card on just to make sure that it wasn’t just a camera fault.

Anyway, I don’t save on to the card now, I don’t download images to the card and transport them, I just use them to store the capture images until I download them. If I tell you I haven’t had any problems since I started doing this then you can see why I do it this way… Then I tell you that I am on cards 7-10 whilst one of my colleagues has just started using her 23rd card…
Of course all this info’s not much use to you if you can only access your printer using the docking station!

If your wife still can’t understand why she can’t store images on the card then use the old glass of water trick – fill it to the brim and ask her how she is going to get more in there without losing something! That’s what I did to the boss-type who couldn’t understand why we needed more flashcards while still traveling around with the previous days images filling them up…

Flood.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Well we’ll find out soon, BBC network (London) asked Strathclyde Police if they could switch the game to Sunday as they are showing a couple of FA cup games live on Saturday.

The Polis said NO !

😮 Strathclyde polis in ‘get something right’ shocker! 😮

(Incidentally, it might not have been obvious to our jug eared friend Mr. Lineker, but Auntie has an FA Cup game on Sunday, too… :rolleyes: )

Originally posted by Snapper
Take tthat T5!! Hahahahahhahah!

Eh? – Nermal

Yeah, I know.

Oh you’re cruel Snapper.:p