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From: "Larry N. Bolch" 
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Subject: Re: digital software
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:08:08 -0700
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karen.wattie{at}fanciful.org known by followers as "the Wise", thus proclaimed
unto all the People:

> This week I have a lady wanting me to commission me to come teach her how
> to get pictures off her new digital camera and onto her computer.
> Apparently her daughter bought her the camera for Christmas, but managed
> to lose the book before giving it to her.  MY camera came with software
> to get the pictures onto the computer (though I no longer use that), but
> she says she didn't get that either.  Don't all digital cameras come with
> some sort of software?

Yes, but most everyone I know - and I moderate one of the biggest digital
camera forums on Yahoo and participate in several others - uses a card
reader and the computer system's own file utility. In the case of WIntels,
it is Windows Explorer.

Card readers are cheap, fast and easy to use, and don't put any strain on
the camera's USB connectors. The only time I have ever hooked the camera
directly to the computer for offloading was when I was on location on the
desert shoot and offloading onto a laptop.

Of course, some cameras do come with very useful applications as well. Mine
came with a full, able-to-be-registered Adobe Photoshop Elements - a superb
program.

larry!
ICQ 76620504
http://www.larry-bolch.com/

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