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hooked the usb port up to camera - camera screen says "USB connected" - now how do i open the picture files to send them as an email? Isn't something automatically supposed to pop up?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago)

what brand are you using, Roger, and what software?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago)

using a pc - yr standard compaq presario piece of junk. windows. camera is a concord 3040AF

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago)

It might depend on the camera as to wether you can access the pictures automatically - I believe many cameras (I know mine does) need software installed to xfer and view the images. It has to load the camera up as another drive basically.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

You shouldve got some s/w with it to install.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

If you've lost the CDs with the drivers, most camera makers post the software drivers on their website to download.

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Most new cameras should pop up as a "rmovable drive" under the My Computer section...usually e:\ if you don't have a ton of other drives already set up. You can generally click that uner the My Computer Icon, and then click through to DCIM, which will give you direct access to your photos (this is assuming you've connected your camera to the PC using USB, and it's turned on and stuff).

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:40 (twenty years ago)

That should be removable. I am a little tipsy right now

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I dropped mine on Christmas Eve and it looks like the bulb(?) behind the LCD screen must have blown out - the screen looks black but I can make out very faint outlines of the icons in the right light. So, as the warranty doesn't cover "impact", how much is this going to cost me?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Um, just don't tell them it was impact?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I think it's pretty obvious.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't intend to tell them but I do want to prepare for the possibility that the warranty cannot protect me.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Ummm. How do I resize pictures? I just bought my first camera, and it seems like when the pics upload they're insanely huge. Is there a way to do this without, say, Photoshop? I guess I should just get Photoshop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

pixia is good for that, and it's free...
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

― the jews (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

also - if you want to resize them to post them on the internet, photobucket does it automatically and also gives you further editing options

― gem (trisk), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

screw photobucket... get a flickr account.

― the jews (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

I use the GIMP (gnu image manipulation program) - free, open source, works on different platforms, does most everything.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

ooh thanks, everybody. does flickr do resizing, too?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

because i do already have a photobucket account, which i've used very sporadically, but now that i have the camera, i'm inclined to use flickr more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i'm a luddite - i only have a photobucket account. thus i have no idea.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

flickr resizes pics into multiple sizes -- large (smaller than original if the original is huge), medium, small, thumbnail, 75x75 square.

― the jews (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not too much of a snob about this, i just don't entirely trust a service with "bucket" in its name.

― the jews (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

haha. well, i like flickr anyway, so i will sign up!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

Paint Shop Pro is also good; do they still have a free version?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 November 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

(and hell, if you dont mind warez, just get Photoshop, it really is good, tho it is a memory hog)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 November 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

bizarre problem with my canon S2 IS.

i left it in the trunk of my car for about a month. took it out, put new batteries in it. everything seems to be working fine, except when i take outdoor shots everything is whited-out. bizarrely, raising the f-stop and shutter rate only leads to more and more whited-out photos, so that on f-8.0 and 1/3200 i get a completely white field. you would expect complete black, right?

and then even weirder is that when i try to take video, the film turns out fine, indoor or outdoor.

suggestions?

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)

You moved to the suburbs?

― plenty chong (libcrypt), Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

thanking u lord custos

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:39 (sixteen years ago)

check the iso isn't set to something crazily high.

― joe, Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

Sounds like the shutter is actually damaged - i.e., has a hole in it or just stays open or isn't triggering for the right amount of time. Wouldn't be a problem when shooting a movie as the shutter just stay open anyway, capturing a constant feed on the sensor.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

actually i figured it out. there are skinny white scan lines across anything black in the photos which means the sensors is busted. repair would be about what i paid for the thing. any suggestions on a new dSLR?

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)

maybe a rebel xti, i guess

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:18 (sixteen years ago)

I think there are a couple of other digital camera threads active at the moment and I'll just say what I said on those:

Canon Digital Rebel XS (aka 1000D) is not necessarily the best or cheapest entry-level DSLR but it is the only one that takes a fast, cheap, autofocus prime and 1000D + 50mm f/1.8 = great camera. But if zooms are your thing, definitely consider Nikon D40, Pentax K-m, Sony Alpha 200. This is kind of an interesting addition to the field - a hybrid that disposes of the whole mirror-box/optical viewfinder thing, takes different lenses, autofocuses as fast as a phase-detect SLR and has a high-res electronic viewfinder. There's a HD video version of it out soon.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

I have a sony alpha-300 and though it's just fine i still wish id gone with the canon 1000D

― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:48 (sixteen years ago)

those panasonics have leica lenses, right?

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

btw when i finally imported those photos off the camera onto my computer this is what they looked like ... clearly something is badly fucked up inside.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3376618791_50e9c263d6_o.jpg

sorry for the living room porn!!!

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

check out the damage at this size

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

panasonic lx3 compact slr is supposed to be amazing but maybe you want something more like a real old school adaptable slr?

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicdmclx3/

ps. nice apartment.

― jed_, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

btw that camera revue is like 10 pages long but that's not immediately clear from looking at the site.

― jed_, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, Leica design lenses for Panasonic (and Panasonic, in turn, make all Leica digital compacts, and Leica rebrand them). How they compare to Leica M-series lenses that you'd find on Leica film and digital bodies, I've no idea. Sony have a similar relationship with Zeiss and Samsung with Pentax.

(That LX3 is pretty extraordinary from the front-page specs - 24-60/2.0-2.8 on a compact?)

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

yeah i've looked at that very camera, jed, it does look astoundingly rad. for that price you could get a leica dlux-3 ... hmmm.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

btw i got to play with one of these the other day for work, pretty f'ing amazing in 600 and 1200 fps mode.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

is that your living room because if so im jealous

― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Monday, 23 March 2009 01:05 (sixteen years ago)

yeah

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 23 March 2009 02:24 (sixteen years ago)

so if i wanted to spend under $200 on a camera, with it's two main uses being product shots (small items, closeups, detail capture important) and outdoors/landscape snaps, what would someone here recommend?

― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Monday, 23 March 2009 02:49 (sixteen years ago)

canons run about 300 so you could probably get a last-model canon for $150. something like the s2-is i own (and is now worthless).

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 23 March 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productList&A=buyUsed&Q=381966

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 23 March 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

thanks!

― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Monday, 23 March 2009 02:59 (sixteen years ago)

read about it here: http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Powershot-S2-Digital-Stabilized/dp/B0009GZSSO

i'm really bummed mine is broke :-(

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 23 March 2009 03:16 (sixteen years ago)

i can't stress enough how bad ass the canon 1000d is. justine, i'd even recommend it to you. unless you want sth compact of course. then go with the g10

― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Monday, 23 March 2009 06:15 (sixteen years ago)

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