Hi. Normally I'm pretty quiet because I don't really have a lot of Mac wisdom to share, but here's my digital camera situation:
I have an Olympus D-40. It is small, cute, works like a charm, and I'm the envy of all my digital photographer pals (which kind of makes up for the fact that I didn't really get a good deal pricewise on the camera...) My 5300 does not have usb, so I knew I was going to have to use a pc card or floppy adapter. I don't know anything about pc cards, or where to get them, so I focussed on the floppy adapters, which seemed to be available everywhere. First I bought the Sony floppy adapter that was referenced in the Olympus documentation. When I got it home, I discovered that it doesn't work in on PPC's, which rules out my PB. I was also then shocked to find out that I couldn't hook the camera up thru the usb to my desktop system (which is a PPC 6500) because my desktop system's usb hardware wasn't factory installed. It just refuses to work. So I went out and got the Fuji floppy adapter on the advice of one of my pro photo pals. I was in a panic again when I found that it couldn't be used on the 5300. Sigh! Luckily, the Fuji floppy adapter works with my desktop system, and that is how I port pictures in. What's not so good is that the floppy adpater only handles smartmedia up to 64mb, while the camera will take the larger cards. This has been okay, it gets the job done. It's slow, I can't use some of the neaty keen features on my camera, but it does do the basic job. I don't really have an easily portable or direct way of getting my pictures on the pb, which is kind of what I intended all along. I'd love feedback from anyone who actually has experience using a pc card smartcard reader or hooking a newer camera to an older pb with a pc card usb. A pro photographer I know says that she refuses to use pc card media readers because they "fry" her cards and make them impossible to use in her camera. Knock wood, my floppy adapter hasn't done this to me yet. But what she said made me a bit wary of spending good moolah for another kind of adapter. Pook > 17. Re: Digital camera for 3400 > At 11:04 AM -0500 1/5/03, John Webb wrote: > >I was just wondering what would be the best "older" > digital camera for > >my Powerbook 3400? ... > I'm really happy with my Olympus D600-L, which uses > the serial port > on my Mac. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
