Buying a new computer - question

   / Buying a new computer - question #11  
</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
 
   / Buying a new computer - question #12  
I use a reader (at home), too.

I saw a demonstration of one of those HP All-in-one machines. I was skeptical because my experience has typically been that these things don't do any one thing very well. This did look promising, though. It has its own card reader - so no need for a PC. You push your card in and it reads it. You have the option of printing all the photos, just one, or selecting a bunch. But the coolest thing was the "Proof" function. You press a button and it prints a proof sheet (thumbnails of your pictures) with little ovals under each pic. You colour in the ovals of the pics you want. You color in the oval at the bottom next to the size of the prints you want (3x5, 4x6, 8x10), and then what kind of paper you'll be using. You place the proof on the scanner section and it reads your selections and prints accordingly. Really neat.
 
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Now THAT (HP all-in-one printer) sounds like something my wife could use! I'll look into it. Thanks.
 
   / Buying a new computer - question #14  
WVBill,

Nice (gorgeous, actually) barn!!!! Now I thought folks from West Virginia were supposed to have more garage than house, but I never heard about having more barn than house. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Now I suppose you'll post a picture of your house for us to drool over!
 
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I wasn't fishing for compliments, but thanks very much. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
I'm proud of the barn since I designed it myself and I, my father-in-law and uncles-in-law built it ourselves. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

...But since you asked about a picture of the house - how about one of the whole place?
 

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You really know how to hurt a man! Very nice. Call me in 10 years or so and I hope to show you pictures of my place.
 
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I think your 13 acres in Charlottesville trumps my 3.5 acres. I wish I had that much land 'tween me and the next guy.

If you ever do the Thunder in the Valley re-enactment, stop by for a visit. I'm only about 6 miles from Charles Town.
 
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WVBill,

The 13 acres is actually in Lexington, though I live in Charlottesville currently. I am very happy with my land. I guess the lesson is to be satisfied with what we have! 3.5 acres or not, that is one gorgeous set up that you have. Thanks for the invitation--hopefully it still stands even if I don't do any reenacting. I have thought about it plenty, and would like to, and have been heavily recruited, but just don't have the time. Friends of mine are the major and colonel of the 19th va. I did serve in the Monticello Guard-- a National Guard unit, which if you trace it back to the civil war was in the 19th virginia. The same unit goes all the way back to Washington's militia before the revolution. We also hit Omaha Beach on the third wave on d-day. Last fall, my old unit was activated for two years--kinda wish I was still with them.
 
   / Buying a new computer - question #19  
bill if your computer has usb, and your camera is usb it should be know proble to view the pics. straight up on your computer, or a card reader will let u do the same. when i burn photos to dic. i use cd-r"s most folks seem to be able to handel that . i gave a cd i burned to a guy that has a dvd player thet plays dvd, cd, mp3 and he said it worked fine. i have yet to get one tho, i got enough stuff and wires behind my entertainment center /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif but am getting one soon, what the heck is a few more wires? if i can figure out how to hook it up. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
   / Buying a new computer - question #20  
I'll second the suggestion to buy a USB card reader. They cost $20-$25 and release you from the tedium of doing downloads -unless your camera already has USB in which case you may not need one /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 

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