The one big thing is that you will have to give up using Canon Zoom Browser; that program can't handle RAW files from a Pentax camera.
But not to worry. When you plug your CF card reader into your USB slot, it shows up as an external hard drive (probably drive E:). If you've got things set up so that Zoom Browser gets started automatically to try to transfer files, don't worry; just exit out of Zoom Browser. Go to "My Computer" (probably there's an Icon for this on the desktop; if not, you can get there easily from the "Start" menu). You'll see a drive there in the section "Drives with Removable Storage" - click on that and you'll see the drive. Your images will be down a couple of levels of folders (probably called DCIM and Pentax100). Once you get there, you can drag-and-drop the images (JPEGs, PEFs, etc.) to wherever you want them to be on your hard drive. You'll then be able to open them up and look at them with any editing program, the Pentax browser software, or whatever. On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 01:54:13PM -0500, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > Ok so it is true confessions time. I'm totally flummoxed by > something I though I should be able to figure out. > > First of all I want to let you guys know that one of you, Steve > Desjardins to be precise, loaned me an elderly DSL - indefinitely _ > a PENTAX - so I can honestly take photos for PUG now instead of > diggin gup stuff my my archives all the time and > can use full Pentax for the next PDML book. and even maybe get onto > the Pentax online gallery, if I have the patience. > While I'm eternally grateful to my friend, I'm hitting some snags > using the equipment. > > So here is my problem... the loaner is an ist d - and I have the > software loaded for PEntax Browser and Pentax Lab... > but I don't have the cord that goes from the camera into the USB2 > port... couldn't find one anywhere. However, I > do ahve a little card reader - a Targus that takes the cf cards the > ist d uses. > > I couldnt make things go with the card reader. the computer > recognized the hardware it said. > > So I took the card out of the D and put it in my canon rebel and > voila! I was able to read and download all the jpg files > I had shot with the D. But then I set the camera to do RAW and > couldn't download that way. > > When I attach the card reader I hear the bell that tells me the > computer knows somethign is there but I don't know which pentax > stuff to > open to connect with it... > > I've been using the Canon zoom Browser for everything .. and I'm > used to just doing it directly from the camera. > > Can someone plese talk to me like I was a totaly neophite and tell > me step by step what to do to get the images from > the card reader? I don't know what the computer calls the card > reader.. > > I need to get the PEF files on and then I imagine I can open them > with Adobe Elements... I"d like to be able to extract the jpgs too. > > Ive got Windoze XP, Elements 5.0 . > > Oddly, I got the card reader to respond at one point but using the > Canon software and I ahve NO idea how it happened... I > really can't remember what ive done from one minute to the next > unless ive done it at least twenty times. > > T I A > now I'm going out to shoot for a bit > > ann > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
