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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Received on Thu Jul 15 1999 - 08:01:14 BST