John Francis wrote:
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.
Yeah I already discoverd that... it can't slide show even canon raw
files _ I have to extract
the jpgs to slideshow it.
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:).
E is occupied with a 500 gig hard drive :-)
however F is what comes up...
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.
No not automatic...
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).
I found it but it doesnt say "drives with Removable storage" anywhere...
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.
actually I selected all then copied them into a folder I made with the
date...
It went so fast I thought only one image was copied!
I had a ton of choices to make when the computer recognized the card
reader...
I just had been selecting things before that didnt work.
Thanks, John...
Now I can shoot raw!
ann
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
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