Start stocking up on Film now Tom I understand that Kodak is really
having to cut back on production due to financial losses. (Who has a
Canon, Minolta, and Pentax)
Stewart
At 10:18 AM 11/2/2007, you wrote:
My Olympus digital camera may be 5 years old, but it works fine. My
Minolta SLR is
Are you or the article saying that Vista won't read files that are on the
camera? If it will display them, I can simply move them, right? Are you
saying that Vista won't recognize files from a camera plugged into a USB
port?
One of the reviews says many cameras won't let you get at your
Are you or the article saying that Vista won't read files that are on the
camera? If it will display them, I can simply move them, right? Are you
saying that Vista won't recognize files from a camera plugged into a USB
port?
That may be what the other person is saying, but it's not true.
http://www.shutterbug.net/equipmentreviews/software_computers/0607microsoft/index.html
Another shutterbug article from a software perspective. Doesn't seem to
touch on any hardware difficulties.
Mike
On 11/1/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just noticed an interesting sidebar in
many cameras will need firmware/software upgrades to be Vista compatible and
some won't
work at all...
Just for the record, I have used six different cameras with Vista, and they
were all
compatible, including one that dates back to the previous century.
I was thinking that the assertion that cameras would not work with vista was
odd, but I haven't seen the whole article. I'd go to the newstand when i'm
at the bookstore but it's from months ago. I was going to poke around on
the net to see if I could find anything on it.
Mike
On 11/1/07, Chris
http://www.shutterbug.net/equipmentreviews/software_computers/0607microsof
t/index.html
That guy had only a single camera and did not connect it to his computer.
Sigh, for those who can't Google my link is...
www.shutterbug.net/equipmentreviews/amateur_digital_slrs/0707digitalslr/ind
ex1.html
So, as usual, you left just a few bits out.
They mention that some major camera makers have no plans to upgrade their
cameras to work
with Vista.
They mention major camera makers? They mention Sigma. They don't mention
Canon, Nikon,
Olympus, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Panasonic, Fuji, Casio, HP, or
Part of the article makes it sound like hardware (firmware) another
part talks about the software. Could anyone care less about the
software? The author also is very free with his accusastions, since
two cameras from one maker don't work he assumes there will be many.
Mike
On Nov 1, 2007 3:05
:52 PM
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Vista Makes Photographers Cry
...
Well, you got me there. I guess this bit, which is in the same paragraph, does
sound
awfully bitter:
[MS's replacemawfullyt for JPEG] supports a wide range of features, including
multiple
color
Excited yet?
Vista fan boys do not detect the writer's use of sarcasm -- We're from
Microsoft and we're here to help you. Ho, ho, ho.
* == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in ==
* == the body of
Why won't cameras work with Vista? Are they talking here about the
actual camera files, or are they talking about the camera software that one
is encouraged to install? I don't use camera software. Just hook the
camera to the computer and grab the files off the camera drive, whatever
they
My Olympus C-2100 is not on the compatibility list so as far as I am
concerned, Vista
don't work.
The current version of the software for your 7-year old camera is
Vista-compatible, and
free. I guess you didn't bother to check the Olympus site?
This magazine found that your method just hook
Tom as a person who was trained with statistics, it is very poor
writing to use an descriptive word that is undefined.
I lump many in with my sons response to how much homework do you have
left? Not much!!! (By the way in normal speak his not much means over 50%)
Poor editorship on their
At 06:35 PM 11/01/2007 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote
Why won't cameras work with Vista? Are they talking here about the
actual camera files, or are they talking about the camera software that one
is encouraged to install? I don't use camera software. Just hook the
camera to the computer and grab
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