Digital Camera wont connect

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Jim typed on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:46:42 -0500:
I have removed and installed compact flash cards in my Nikon D70
quite a few times, and I have not had a problem getting them to work
in the camera. I have removed and installed the SDHC card in my
Nikon D90 several times without incident. And, I am several years
older than Ken.
Jim

Yet there was a call once to customer support of a much younger person
who was told to insert another floppy disk into the drive and they said
after the third one no more will fit into the drive. Go figure!

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From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

| On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:06:15 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
| wrote:

"Paul Randall" wrote in message
...

Plugging stuff into a camera is one of the major causes of camera damage.
Compact Flash cards have been known to go into some expensive Nikon
cameras
slightly askew, causing the grounding pin to be mashed over inside the
camera. Not a fun thing to have fixed. The USB connection may be more
fool
proof.

This seems excellent advice for people who are genuinely
"all fingers and thumbs." But most people are not. If someone
has been used to taking out the image cartridge to load contents
onto a PC five or 10 times a year (thus 10 or 20 reinsertions)
without damage, this suggests that up to age 70 the user
will be able to manage this again.


| I'm over 70 (almost 72) and do it more that 10 times a year. I've
| never had a problem.

Ken:

You write like a much younger man :-)

I have taken thousands of pictures with a dSLR and I find I am switching memory cards all
the time and I have 6 in 1 SanDisk Memory Card Reader and it makes life much easier.
Indeed, if I connect the camera via USB the camera must be tuned on and that just wastes
the battery.

I ran into a problem at work in supporting my Graphics Artist. The problem is "USB Mass
Storage Devices" are disabled by Group Policy on the Domain. To get around this I
installed a PCMCIA interface in her PC and purchased a Compact Flash to PCMCIA card. My
Graphics Artist has been a very happy camper ever since.


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From: "BillW50"


| And you own one of those slightly skewed expensive Nikon cameras?

That's NOT the norm.


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In ,
David H. Lipman typed on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:36:35 -0400:
From: "BillW50"

And you own one of those slightly skewed expensive Nikon cameras?

That's NOT the norm.

Is that like saying Boeing isn't the norm for commercial flight?

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On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:35:08 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

| On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:06:15 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
| wrote:

"Paul Randall" wrote in message
...

Plugging stuff into a camera is one of the major causes of camera damage.
Compact Flash cards have been known to go into some expensive Nikon
cameras
slightly askew, causing the grounding pin to be mashed over inside the
camera. Not a fun thing to have fixed. The USB connection may be more
fool
proof.

This seems excellent advice for people who are genuinely
"all fingers and thumbs." But most people are not. If someone
has been used to taking out the image cartridge to load contents
onto a PC five or 10 times a year (thus 10 or 20 reinsertions)
without damage, this suggests that up to age 70 the user
will be able to manage this again.


| I'm over 70 (almost 72) and do it more that 10 times a year. I've
| never had a problem.

Ken:

You write like a much younger man :-)


If that's a complement, thanks very much. g

I'm pretty healthy and spry, so I mostly feel like a much younger man.


I have taken thousands of pictures with a dSLR and I find I am switching memory cards all
the time


Me too and me too.


and I have 6 in 1 SanDisk Memory Card Reader and it makes life much easier.


I have just an SD reader, which is all I need for my camera. I agree;
I also like using it much better than connecting the camera.

But my new laptop (an ASUS EEE netbook, which I've had for about a
week) comes with an SD card reader built into it. So I don't even need
the separate reader when I'm traveling.


Indeed, if I connect the camera via USB the camera must be tuned on and that just wastes
the battery.


Yes! Besides being easier, that's another reason why I also prefer the
reader.


I ran into a problem at work in supporting my Graphics Artist. The problem is "USB Mass
Storage Devices" are disabled by Group Policy on the Domain. To get around this I
installed a PCMCIA interface in her PC and purchased a Compact Flash to PCMCIA card. My
Graphics Artist has been a very happy camper ever since.


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Ken Blake

Indeed, if I connect the camera via USB the camera must be tuned on and
that just wastes
the battery.

Yes! Besides being easier, that's another reason why I also prefer the
reader.

Battery is not so important comparing to the camera and the lens. I usually
keep my camera in the safe bag and it takes a second to open this bag, take
the SDHC card out keeping the camera in, insert the card into the Card
Reader, copy data to the computer and finally return the card back into the
camera. And the camera is safe all the time. It's expensive enough Nikon
with a very good optics so I'd prefer to keep doing this way. But even for
much cheaper cameras we usually take the card and copy the data with the
card reader. Safer for the cameras. I'm professional computer guy with over
23+ pro experience and I have no problem to disassemble any computer, but I
prefer to work with the card and this is my choice. Also keep in mind that
I, like many people, who made many hundreds of thousands of photos, have
many SDHC cards with me so I can easily switch the cards if required. There
is a good rule - don't keep all eggs... - you remember, and sometimes in
very rare cases the card can fail taking all your brilliant shots away. So
switching the cards in the fields is a part of the game.

I ran into a problem at work in supporting my Graphics Artist. The
problem is "USB Mass
Storage Devices" are disabled by Group Policy on the Domain. To get
around this I
installed a PCMCIA interface in her PC and purchased a Compact Flash to
PCMCIA card. My
Graphics Artist has been a very happy camper ever since.
Dave

Sometimes laptops don't have all required ports. I bought PCMCIA to FW card
to copy the DV footage from my camcorder and it works just great.

Just D.

Contacts on SD and CF cards are rated for a very high number of insertions,
as it is envisaged by the memory-makers that they will be changed frequently.
There is a slight danger with CF of bending the pins if you do it roughly,
but you'd have to be Ronon Dex to manage that.

I never install digicam services. Why, after all, would I want to have to
learn to use a special interface to transfer files to the computer when I can
do this from the card with explorer, xcopy or any familiar method?

"Jim" wrote:

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:12:28 -0400, John Wolf
wrote:

Its been a while since I used a XP PC but my folks Kodak M340 wont connect
to the PC. A error message pops up saying "cant get device information." I
tried uninstalling the Kodak software and using the Windows XP camera
transfer app and then no error message pops up. I then re-installed
EasyShare 8.x and the error message popped up again. I thought maybe there
is a issue with the camera, however the camera works like a charm on my Mac
OSX Tiger based ibook G4. Other digital cameras connect just fine to the
Windows XP PC so not sure what the issue is. Perhaps Kodak designed the
camera so that it would require the use of their software in order to
download pictures, but if that was the case wonder why it worked on my Mac
using the Mac's default image and transfer app.

Thanks for the help.


John

PS-As a temporary solution we could buy a USB SD card reader, but ideally
this is not a good solution but as a backup.

Recently there was another message along this line , and it was some
trouble with EasyShare ; can`t remember the details .

This person had a similar problem:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=17179

The cause was running the Easyshare software using a limited (or "User")
account.

Could this be the problem in your case?

Lance
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John Wolf wrote the following on 9/19/2009 08:12 AM:
Its been a while since I used a XP PC but my folks Kodak M340 wont connect
to the PC. A error message pops up saying "cant get device information." I
tried uninstalling the Kodak software and using the Windows XP camera
transfer app and then no error message pops up. I then re-installed
EasyShare 8.x and the error message popped up again. I thought maybe there
is a issue with the camera, however the camera works like a charm on my Mac
OSX Tiger based ibook G4. Other digital cameras connect just fine to the
Windows XP PC so not sure what the issue is. Perhaps Kodak designed the
camera so that it would require the use of their software in order to
download pictures, but if that was the case wonder why it worked on my Mac
using the Mac's default image and transfer app.

Thanks for the help.


John

PS-As a temporary solution we could buy a USB SD card reader, but ideally
this is not a good solution but as a backup.

This person had a similar problem:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=17179

The cause was running the Easyshare software using a limited (or "User")
account.

Could this be the problem in your case?

Lance
*****

John Wolf wrote the following on 9/19/2009 08:12 AM:
Its been a while since I used a XP PC but my folks Kodak M340 wont connect
to the PC. A error message pops up saying "cant get device information." I
tried uninstalling the Kodak software and using the Windows XP camera
transfer app and then no error message pops up. I then re-installed
EasyShare 8.x and the error message popped up again. I thought maybe there
is a issue with the camera, however the camera works like a charm on my Mac
OSX Tiger based ibook G4. Other digital cameras connect just fine to the
Windows XP PC so not sure what the issue is. Perhaps Kodak designed the
camera so that it would require the use of their software in order to
download pictures, but if that was the case wonder why it worked on my Mac
using the Mac's default image and transfer app.

Thanks for the help.


John

PS-As a temporary solution we could buy a USB SD card reader, but ideally
this is not a good solution but as a backup.

use a multi / generic card
reader and simply read/write
to the flash card

instead of plugging the
physical camera to the
computer.



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"John Wolf" wrote in message
...
Its been a while since I used a XP PC but my folks Kodak M340 wont connect
to the PC. A error message pops up saying "cant get device information." I
tried uninstalling the Kodak software and using the Windows XP camera
transfer app and then no error message pops up. I then re-installed
EasyShare 8.x and the error message popped up again. I thought maybe there
is a issue with the camera, however the camera works like a charm on my
Mac
OSX Tiger based ibook G4. Other digital cameras connect just fine to the
Windows XP PC so not sure what the issue is. Perhaps Kodak designed the
camera so that it would require the use of their software in order to
download pictures, but if that was the case wonder why it worked on my Mac
using the Mac's default image and transfer app.

Thanks for the help.


John

PS-As a temporary solution we could buy a USB SD card reader, but ideally
this is not a good solution but as a backup.

In ,
db typed on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:38:17 -0500:
use a multi / generic card
reader and simply read/write
to the flash card

instead of plugging the
physical camera to the
computer.

I do both and besides of the latter sometimes needing some USB driver
from the manufacture. Both methods are just as good as the other in most
cases.

--
Bill
Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195)
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC

db wrote:
use a multi / generic card
reader and simply read/write
to the flash card

instead of plugging the
physical camera to the
computer.




"PS-As a temporary solution we could buy a USB SD card reader, but
ideally this is not a good solution but as a backup."

This is what this guy mentioned about a SD card reader; as you can see;
he is NOT pleased with this solution!

The guy asked why his computer doesn't recognize the camera!

perhaps not.

but I was merely providing a
suggestion based on my
personal experience.

eventually it gets tiresome
with wrestling with devices
and their specialty drivers

especially every time micro
soft provides some kind of
update for who know what
and why.

so the sd card method is an
ideal solution that is cost
effective and reliable.

but ultimately, the o.p.
will have to develop a
headache free solution.


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"Theslaz" wrote in message news:Wivtm.44569$Db2.341@edtnps83...
db wrote:
use a multi / generic card
reader and simply read/write
to the flash card

instead of plugging the
physical camera to the
computer.




"PS-As a temporary solution we could buy a USB SD card reader, but ideally this is not a good solution but as a backup."

This is what this guy mentioned about a SD card reader; as you can see; he is NOT pleased with this solution!

The guy asked why his computer doesn't recognize the camera!

In news:Wivtm.44569$Db2.341@edtnps83,
Theslaz typed on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:23:34 GMT:
db wrote:
use a multi / generic card
reader and simply read/write
to the flash card

instead of plugging the
physical camera to the
computer.

"PS-As a temporary solution we could buy a USB SD card reader, but
ideally this is not a good solution but as a backup."

This is what this guy mentioned about a SD card reader; as you can
see; he is NOT pleased with this solution!

The guy asked why his computer doesn't recognize the camera!

Some cameras require a special USB drivers from the manufacture before
the computer can see the camera. My Fuji FinePix 2650 digital camera is
like that.

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Bill
Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195)
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC

David H. Lipman wrote:

Actually, using a USB Memory Card reader is the *better* solution than connecting the
camera to the PC.

The ONLY reason I can see connecting a PC to a camera is if it is a notebook, used in the
field, and you are using software to directly control a camera mounted on a tripod.


I've got an older Canon camera with a memory card that my computer
doesn't seem to like. If I put the card into the computer before I turn
it on, the computer hangs during BIOS boot. If I put the card in after I
turn the computer on the light on the card reader goes on but the
computer doesn't recognize what's in the slot. However, if I leave the
card in the camera and hook up the camera to a USB port everything works
fine.

I'm not asking for troubleshooting advice, since I've got an easy
work-around, but this is certainly another reason for connecting a PC to
a camera.

Bill