StoneHeartFarm
Veteran Member
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Thanks, everyone.
My immediate issue is that my wife and I have a digital still camera. She takes wonderful pictures with it (see attachment) but the technology involved in hooking the camera up to the computer to see the pictures is beyond her. So she always complains that she never gets to see the pictures we take on the digital until I get around to printing them out. I think, though, that I can show her how to pop a disk into the DVD so that she can see the pictures on the TV. )</font>
There are basically three ways to transfer the pictures (at least that I'm aware of).
1. You can connect the camera to the computer with a cord.
2. You can use a camera that puts the pictures on a floppy disk.
3. You can use a card reader type device.
There are a couple of different card reading designs available. Both do the same thing in slightly different ways.
There are standard card readers that plug into the back of the computer, and there are the kind that slide into the computer's floppy drive. I have one of each, and far prefer the standard reader over the kind that slide into the floppy drive. It seems easier to use, less prone to dirt and damage and was about 1/2 the price of the floppy drive kind.
All you do to operate the Standard reader on XP is slide the camera's card into the slot. A window will then open and ask where you want to store the pictures, it will then effect the transfer and open the appropriate window.
Steve
My immediate issue is that my wife and I have a digital still camera. She takes wonderful pictures with it (see attachment) but the technology involved in hooking the camera up to the computer to see the pictures is beyond her. So she always complains that she never gets to see the pictures we take on the digital until I get around to printing them out. I think, though, that I can show her how to pop a disk into the DVD so that she can see the pictures on the TV. )</font>
There are basically three ways to transfer the pictures (at least that I'm aware of).
1. You can connect the camera to the computer with a cord.
2. You can use a camera that puts the pictures on a floppy disk.
3. You can use a card reader type device.
There are a couple of different card reading designs available. Both do the same thing in slightly different ways.
There are standard card readers that plug into the back of the computer, and there are the kind that slide into the computer's floppy drive. I have one of each, and far prefer the standard reader over the kind that slide into the floppy drive. It seems easier to use, less prone to dirt and damage and was about 1/2 the price of the floppy drive kind.
All you do to operate the Standard reader on XP is slide the camera's card into the slot. A window will then open and ask where you want to store the pictures, it will then effect the transfer and open the appropriate window.
Steve