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Paula J. Coleman		downloading pictures Would you please tell me how to go about downloading my pictures from my digital camera to my hard drive so I can then download them to a floopy disk. I want to be able to take them and show them on our computer at church. We have a big weekend coming up next week and we would like to show our pictures when we do the Sunday morning services. Thank you so very much, To love this question, log in above March 30, 2001

John A. Lind		Paula, What make and model of digital camera do you have? What type of computer do you have? Is it a "PC" running under Windows? (If so, is it Windows '95, Windows '98, or a later version?) Is it a Macintosh? This may help in getting a detailed answer specific to your camera and computer system. Many digitals can be connected through a serial or USB port. Download of images to the hard drive typically requires some software from the camera maker to access the in-camera images and transfer them. Once on the hard drive, you can save them directly to a 3.5" micro-floppy . . . if the individual image files are small enough to fit (they should be). If the camera uses flash cards, there are flash card readers that can be hooked up to your computer. This requires removing the flash card and plugging it into the reader. Then, with software to access the reader, you can access the images stored in the flash card. The very generic nature of these answers is why I asked some questions for more details . . . and hopefully someone with your make/model of digital can provide details. -- John To love this comment, log in above March 30, 2001

Paula J. Coleman		My camera is a Fuji FinePix 1400 Zoom and I have a Hewlett Packard computer running windows 98. I am sorry that I failed to give you this information. I would just like to know how to download my pictures to a floopy disk. It can be done because a friend was able to do it at our New Years Eve party just by connecting the camera to the computer throught the USB port. It was an E computer running windows 98. Thanks for such a quick response. I hope this helps. If you need more information please feel free to contact me. Paula To love this comment, log in above March 30, 2001

John A. Lind		Windows '98 supports USB ports if you have a USB port on your computer. Your 1400 should have come with a USB cable and some software. Not certain if you have to install the software first, or connect the camera and allow the "Plug 'n Play" feature of the 1400 and Windows '98 prompt you for it. If the software is already installed, you should be able to find it on the Windows "Start" menu somewhere. After the camera is connected with the software installed, you should be able to download the images from the camera to the computer hard drive. After the images are on your computer hard drive, you should be able to simply copy them off to a floppy. How many will fit on the floppy will depend on the size of the images. A common file format is a "jpeg" image. -- John To love this comment, log in above March 31, 2001

Paula J. Coleman		I am connected by a USB port and every thing is set up and working. I can look at the picturs but I don't know how to download them to the hard drive and them to the floopy. If you could tell me how to do that I would really appreciate it. Thanks Paula To love this comment, log in above April 03, 2001

John A. Lind		Paula, I had to do a little research . . . and glad I did. How to copy the photographs from your camera to your hard drive . . . or a floppy drive . . . appears to be simple, but it's _not_ inherently obvious. Undoubtedly why you've had troubles. Try this: 1. Connect the USB Cable to your computer and camera. 2. Turn on the camera. Your viewing software may automatically start up to show you the images. If it does, I suspect this will be the Exif Viewer. "Minimize" it so you can see your Windows '98 desktop. 3. Somewhere on your Windows Desktop you should see an icon labeled "My Computer" . . . double-click on it and a window will open showing all of your computer drives: floppy, hard, CD-ROM, etc. 4. Look for a drive icon labeled "Removable Disk" followed by a drive letter. This is your camera's flash card! Double click on this icon. 5. You should see a directory (or "folder") named "DCIM" . . . double click on that to open it. You should now find a directory (or "folder") named "100_FUJI" . . . double click on that to open it. 6. The "100_FUJI" directory contains the pictures stored in your camera's flash card. You can now select them by file name and copy them to any other "writeable" drive on your computer . . . a hard drive, floppy drive, etc. 7. If the files are over 1.44MB in size, they won't fit onto a 3.5" floppy. You will have to copy them to your hard drive first and then resize them using the Adobe PhotoDeluxe software that came on the CD-ROM with your camera. 8. If you store them to your hard drive, I suggest you make a special directory for them so the files don't get mixed up with your software, operating system, etc. 9. An alternative method is to start Adobe PhotoDelux after your camera is connected through the USB cable and turned on: a. In PhotoDelux, click on "File" on the menu bar, then click on "File Open" b. Where it says "Look In" select the "Removeable Device" (followed by a drive letter). Select the "DCIM" directory, and then the "Fuji_100" directory. c. You should be able to select image files to open in PhotoDelux to edit them as desired. d. After editing, you can save them as you would with most other software . . . and select or create a different directory on your computer hard drive to store them in. Hope this helps out. -- John To love this comment, log in above April 05, 2001

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