Lovely.

[obliviousally_lj]

So, TJ picked up a nice little digicam today. A Vivitar 3705. Real nice, LCD screen, flash, all that jazz.

Well, it doesn't seem to want to trandfer the images to the computer.

At all.

It's been sitting here trying to establish a connecting with the computer for, like, 20 minutes.

I followed the intstall directions to a T. Did them, like, three times. And nothing.

The driver installiation is nothing. Pop the CD-ROM in the computer and let it run. Restart and that's that. Now, here's what it tells me to do:

1. Connect on end of the USB cable to an available USB port on your computer.
2. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB connector on the camera.
3. Turn the camera on. (At this point, the camera's LCD screen displays 'Estabilishing connection with computer...')
4. From the Windows desktop, double click on 'My Computer'.
5. Look for a new 'removable disk' icon. This 'removable disk' is actually the memory (or memory card) in your camera. Typically, the camera will be assigned drive letter 'e' or higher (our drives go up to 'e', and 'f' is the CD-ROM).
6. Double clikc on the removable disk and locate the DCIM folder. (I even did a full search for this folder, and nothing came up)
7. Double click on the DCIM folder to open it to find more folders. (images and video clips will be inside said folders).

Now I'm not sure if I've done something wrong, or, if it's just taking all this time to transfer the images (we have the resolution on the images set to 640x480, and at a medium quality).

Stupid camera.

Comments

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Try forcing the camera to drive 'H'. It's probably trying to fight for drive 'E' or 'F'.

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm not sure how I would go about that, as I have no way to specify what drive it uses.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

My computer. The camera should be visible. Right click, properties, adjust drive letter. Alternatively, do the same with your 'E' and 'F' drives.

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

*facepalms* I knew it couldn't have been anything too drastic.

See, our USB port isn't securely locked into the computer. So it comes loose from time to time (namely whenever something gets unplugged from it). I had to unplug the old digicam to put the new one in. So it was loose.

How do I find this out?

My tablet wouldn't work. x_x

But thank you for your help anyhow!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, that works, too.

Now buy me a digital camera!

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

Ours was actually only $88 at Target. Marked down from $120-something. Weekend sale deal, as far as I know. Real nice little thing. Takes good quality pictures and does little movie/video clips, too.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Hm. How many megapixels? And what kinda memory does it take? SD cards?

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

3.3 Megapixels. 8MB of internal memory and it takes SD memory cards, too.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

... $88?

Who made it? And you said Target?

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's Vivitar ViviCam 3705.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

That's...tempting.

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

*grins* Here's some of the pics I just uploaded. They've only been resized down 80% from the original 640x480 size.

http://www.fallenangel.furtopia.org/Photos/Digicam01/

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Very tempting.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, the nearest Target (Medina) only had 1 left, and couldn't hold it. But there's a target right next door to my parents. Went ahead and asked them to go look on their way to get my sister from her job (coincidentally RIGHT NEXT to the Target!).

If they have one, I think I'm gonna go for it.

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Yeah, I'm really not sure what the availabilty is on 'em. :P

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

We'll see what happens.