It's never necessary to load Zoom Browser et al. onto your machine. The only part of the installation that you might have needed on an old machine (one running Windows 98, say) would have been drivers for whatver you were using to connect the camera to the computer. It would have been possible to just install that piece, but it's a whole lot easier to install everything. With Windows XP the drivers are already built in, so just plugging the cable in is enough. But that just makes the camera look like an additional disk drive - you won't get any file renaming unless you use a file upload utility. Zoom Browser is one possibility (although I wouldn't let you load it onto my machine, personally; in my experience it doesn't play well with others), but there is a pretty good upload-and-rename interface in Photoshop Elements.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:39:13PM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote: > Welll I got software with the Canon through which I load the pics - > don't have a card reader, actually > > I did need it on my old dell -- maybe I don't need it on the XP and > with Elements 5.0 > > but it includes a raw viewer and converter - although now I'm using the > raw converter in elements 5.0 > > Of course I'll accept any help I can get just to get it done quickly.... > > I almost never use drag and drop - I list the stuff on the card, > highlight the frames I want, go into > the download window of the canon zoom browser and make a directory and a > file prefix. > after they are on the computer I open selections in elements. > > and that reminds me -- I need to bring my mini-mouse with me if I have > to use a laptop. > > Of course in my wildest dreams I hope someone has a pc :) > > BUt be it mac or pc, dealing with a laptop thingy that is supposed to be > a mouse is stress city - > I can't control it... my hands just don't work that way. > > ann the ludite > > Cotty wrote: > > >On 14/3/07, ann sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > > > > >>I hope someone will let me use their adobe photoshop 5.0 and has or can > >>let me load my > >>canon software on their machine so I can actually participate in the > >>contest. > >> > >> > > > >Why would you need to load Canon software on someone's machine? I have > >been using Both Canon and Pentax DSLRs for several years and have never > >loaded any Canon or Pentax software on my Macs. I simply insert a card > >into the reader and then drag and drop the files onto the hard drive. > >>From there, I rename files (ReNamer For Mac) and view/adjust in CS. It > >would be easy enough to do this to anyone's pics on a memory card, I can > >do this for you if you like. Of course, you can adjust your own pics, > >it's plenty easy on a Mac. > > > >I'll bring a burner, although it will be a standalone unit (my PowerBook > >doesn't have a burner). > > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
