Another digital camera question

Take tthat T5!! Hahahahahhahah!

Plus you don’t have to load the crap, overblown, useless, padded software that comes with the camera then. Just stick to Photoshop baby.

Originally posted by Bhoy
it’ll make sense to anyone who knows anything about Scottish football… 😉 🙁

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 !

Originally posted by wysiwyg
Ren my thoughts were that I already had a card reader/writer. It’s called the camera!

Sorry Wys, speaking from experience you can’t always rely on the camera to whisper sweet nothings to your PC. A third party product can often make all the difference.:rolleyes:

Ren my thoughts were that I already had a card reader/writer. It’s called the camera!

it’ll make sense to anyone who knows anything about Scottish football… 😉 🙁

Originally posted by Bhoy
Not if they’re called Quinn, no.

grumble grumble, defender, european big name, grumble, wasted opportunity, grumble, bury the govan mob, grumble, 300k Pearson, ****take, grumble, Michael Gray, faint.

No. Nononononono! I am the one who posts messages that don’t make sense – ask nearly anyone. Even then they make sense to me – occasionally.

This post doesn’t make sense!:confused:

Flood.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Don’t ya just love those money men ?

Not if they’re called Quinn, no.

grumble grumble, defender, european big name, grumble, wasted opportunity, grumble, bury the govan mob, grumble, 300k Pearson, ****take, grumble, Michael Gray, faint.

You can buy a card reader that plugs to the PC via USB, the PC will recognise this as an extra drive (eg Drive F). You can use this “drive” to write pictures back to the memory card, space permitting. You just choose that drive as the drive to save to.

A memory card reader/USB extension cable can be purchased for around £15 in appropriate High Street stores. You could also buy a higher capacity memory card, such as a 512mb or even a 1gb to let her store many more pictures on the card.

And don’t forget, if necessary, your wife could take the memory card into a photo processing shop and get prints done that way as well.

I’ve got an HP2110 Printer/Scanner. They’re rather nice, aren’t they? I can print off pictures that often come out better than what I’d get from film.

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.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Don’t ya just love those money men ?

Er…no.

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
Yep. The PCs did crash with unnerving regularity. My department had a Mac which never went wrong, but it was attached to an A1 flat-scanner (very, very expensive then!) which – although they tried very frequently – would never work with a PC.
The PCs system would crash and the publications would be late. The Macs crashed and they just wheeled a working Mac out and all was well again.
Reports were written that were never seen again.
Images went in as jpg’s and came out as bmp’s or were sent as RGB’s and received as CMYK’s – and the system wouldn’t recognise bmp’s or CMYK’s.
The archival system crashed so many times we went back to the old fashioned back-up system – “No, we’re closed!”.
Three editions a day became one, very late, edition on numerous occasions.

Now if only the money men hadn’t over-ridden the original IT recommendations and gone for the cheapest design with no system support… (Same financial advisors who asked why we couldn’t just buy one copy of Photshop and duplicate that where needed! Licences? Huh!)

Flood.

Don’t ya just love those money men ?

Yep. The PCs did crash with unnerving regularity. My department had a Mac which never went wrong, but it was attached to an A1 flat-scanner (very, very expensive then!) which – although they tried very frequently – would never work with a PC.
The PCs system would crash and the publications would be late. The Macs crashed and they just wheeled a working Mac out and all was well again.
Reports were written that were never seen again.
Images went in as jpg’s and came out as bmp’s or were sent as RGB’s and received as CMYK’s – and the system wouldn’t recognise bmp’s or CMYK’s.
The archival system crashed so many times we went back to the old fashioned back-up system – “No, we’re closed!”.
Three editions a day became one, very late, edition on numerous occasions.

Now if only the money men hadn’t over-ridden the original IT recommendations and gone for the cheapest design with no system support… (Same financial advisors who asked why we couldn’t just buy one copy of Photshop and duplicate that where needed! Licences? Huh!)

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
a company with 20 Macs and about 700 PCs…:eek: Go figure which system crashed on a regular basis
Flood.

From my experience the PCs would crash about three times an hour and be easily restored.

The Macs would crash once every couple of days and need another thousand pounds spending on them each time.

Moggy 🙁

Originally posted by Flood
we get low-res images trying to spread themselves wide due to the endemic “Oh – that’ll do!” mentality!

Flood.

Sounds similar to the rise and rise of the “handycam” in my work.

“They trust you with national security information, but not to be smart about using the internet”

Hehehehe… reminds me of a Discovery Documentary on US subs… you young guy driving the sub didn’t have a drivers licence to drive a car but steered a 2 billion dollar sub…

The Cards in cameras are just memory cards. They can pretty much hold any data including MP3 music… they don’t care. You won’t be able to preview such items on you camera but for transport they are OK. My brother has a USB “key”, which is basically a USB connector that has a slot in the rear for a memory card. He currently uses a 128MB card, but can slip it out and replace it with his own card or multiple cards up to about 1 GB each.

Unless you want to preview the images on the Camera then edited photos can easily be copied to your card. During investigations flash cards, digital equipment (MP3 players, cameras, games consoles etc etc) are all confiscated and in the past you’d be rather surprised where data can be hidden.

Our net gurus have the same SmartFilter software to keep us off of certain websites as well. They trust you with national security information, but not to be smart about using the internet :rolleyes:

No – ours were alright:rolleyes: I suppose, when they weren’t off with stress, on courses (at one point we had 6 Mac trained techs, and 2 PC guys, covering – I was told – a company with 20 Macs and about 700 PCs…:eek: Go figure which system crashed on a regular basis), or hiding in my darkrooms with the pager switched off!
Anyway – one day one of them wanders past and asks if we had seen rotten(dot)com (change the dot for a full stop if you really have to!)? No – we were a bit wary of using the net, we said;). So he showed us. It is a very, er, ‘strange’ website. Lots of weird things on it. So we explored, copied pix and info from it and sent them off around the company like you do… Until a memo was sent round listing sites which some how passed through the safe content filters but were’nt suitable for staff to view! Signed by the same tech too!

Then there was the senior person (maybe even a director!) who was caught viewing certain farm animals interacting with naked young ladies!!! Oh how we laughed;)!

Flood.

Fortunately we don’t have those I.T wonks fouling things up for us. We ask, and we recieve…we just have to pick the right stuff we want for the office.