15 Jul
1999
15 Jul
'99
8:01 a.m.
Whoa! Whoa! First of all I said ****PCs*****, not all computers. Second,
my point was that ALL the current cameras except the Sonys use a cable or
some other sort of physical connection* to upload the image to the
computer. The upload software for a (watch it! There's that word again!)
*PC* requires Win 95 or 98. PERIOD! If you can't or won't use W 95 then
the disk based Sony camera is your only choice. I think it sucks that the
manufacturers only provide Windozes 95 software and I've told several of
them so. I looked at one camera that nor only required a program that only
runs under Windozes 95 but it also requires that you have Micro Slouths
Picture_It AND Micro Slouths Internet Explorer! That's &^%#$^ rediculous!
*Some of the cameras save the images on memory cards that you can remove
and install in an adapter and then insert them into a floppy drive and read
them. BUT it does not read them like they were a disk. You still have to
have special software to read them.
Joe
At 09:57 PM 7/13/99 -0800, you wrote:
Also you should
be aware that ALL the current cameras
except the Sonys require Windozes 95 or 98 just to
download your pictures to a PC. The Sonys use 3.5"
floppy disk in the camera and save the pictures as
standard JPEG files.
Not true! Macs handle them just fine. PC Exchange(part of
MacOS) lets the
Mac access DOS/Windows formatted disks without any problems(if you're just
reading files, lock the disk first. MacOS will leave an annoying desktop
file structure in the disk, which isn't handeled well by DOS. Not sure what
Win95/98 does with it, presumably something very similair, which is just an
annoying hidden(?) directory). Definitley great cameras. Check out my
Tripod page for my Series/1, many of the pics of the CPU cards were taken
with a Sony Mavica.
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