Just a quick reply... Maybe little off-topic. I use a Nikon D1x in a studio. And mainly use(d) the firewire (10m) to connect to Apple G4. A week ago when I was shooting and using photoshop and the Nikon software all of a sudden my screen turned dark gray and I got the message that I needed to reboot using the power button, everything froze up. I started excluding possibilities: changing firewir-cable, changing files, changing program, and then changing Mac....
Turned out it was the firewire connector on the nikon that was busted. The nikon has a connector on the back, and it's just a simple normal firewire connector, which is all good when it's hardware that doesn't need to move a lot. And because of the big sturdy cable fiddling about in the socket, it ruined it. But nikon was fair about it, they knew the problem and are going to fix the socket for free.... Then again, I got to part with the nikon for 3 days, and it sucks working in a studio with compactflash now... Long live the wireless-firewire(!) -grtz- -M. On 09-01-2004 08:29, "Jay Busse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the current v. of Windows Camera Manager (3.2.0) you can unplug and > replug > the FW cable without affecting Camera Manager. (Sadly not so with Mac v. 3.1, > though.) It is listed as a "functional improvement" in the software info. So > even if you have a loose FW connector, this shouldn't cause more than a > momentary problem - unless, of course, the camera is writing to the computer > at > the time. I'm certain _that's_ not a supported function. Oddly, you can't turn > the camera off and back on again while connected, that loses the connection. > But > you can yank the plug, turn the camera off and back on, and then replug, and > all's fine. > > To take some of the strain off the cheesy little 4 pin connnector, what about > finding an old flash bracket and cutting it down so there's a little stub > suppporting the cable and strapping it to that. Or better still, forming a > little fork in the bracket to hold the body of the plug in towards the camera? > Well, whaddya expect for half the price! > > On the Mac laptop front (G3 Pismo) - I did have a problem a couple of weeks > ago > where I dutifully connected and started the camera in proper order, but Cam > Mgr > (3.1) would "find" the camera, but fail to start giving an error message. > After > several tries, I pulled out the CF card, and it started fine. Card back in - > same problem. I reformatted the card in the camera and all was fine. The only > thing I can think of was I had taken the card out and used a USB Jumpshot > cable > to download some files to the laptop, but didn't delete any or modify the card > in any way, as far as I can remember. > > --------------- > Jay Busse > Photo Illustrators > > =============================================================== > GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE > -- -M. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
