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vakkotaurI know someone took a picture or pictures of me when I was riding Captain, one of the jouster's horses, on Sunday. I'd like to get a copy of any such photos. I handed my camera to someone to take pictures of that as well and evidently they didn't take any pictures. This morning the memory card was finally read and there are no images of me riding Captain. Maybe whoever it was only pressed the "shutter" button halfway? Maybe I didn't have the camera set up right when I handed it off. I don't know.
Reading the memory card was its own little adventure. I'd have likely taken more pictures if I had been able to read the card with the laptop. I hadn't checked that until Friday night at the hotel and ran into trouble, so I was being somewhat cautious about taking pictures. I wasn't sure if the hub/card-reader or the laptop was the problem, or both. Turns out, it's both. The laptop is now having trouble reading any USB device. I'm really only waiting for Ultima Linux 8.1 to be released as stable and then I'll likely do a complete re-install, after backing up a few things so I can get things set up the way I want. But the hub/card-reader works fine with my desktop machine at home, except for properly reading CompactFlash cards. It shows up as being there, but the images all appear to be empty which makes no sense. The reader didn't work with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
jmaynard's Mac either. So it looks like I need to replace that. Hey, I think I might still have the receipt and there's a 90 day warranty which hasn't run out just yet. Of course, if when I get my own camera it likely will use SD cards rather than CF. Still, the reader should read everything it claims to be able to read.
We finally got the pictures from the card by using a different reader. I have a bunch of photos and a few even turned out. A bunch did not, but at least I'm not going through film and development expenses to find that out. I suppose this weekend will be spent picking which photos to show off, editing them, and getting them on the web. I probably should burn a CD or a few with that and all the large unedited pictures so I can give that to those who might desire such.
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Just out of curiosity....
Date: 8 Sep 2006 14:30 (UTC)I've had problems with both of the camera brands listed and with Compact Flash and SD cards not working correctly if you try to delete the pictures and format the card with anything except the camera itself.
Canon says (somewhere in the literature) that cards have to be formatted in the device to be usable; the good thing is that formatting in any Canon camera (still or video) seems to be the same, and the card is then interchangeable between the devices. Kodak has a similar warning; I don't know if they are interchangeable, though, as I only have one Kodak camera.
Also, in Windows XP, if you just try to read the card as a drive, the pictures do not necessarily show up as individual files. If you first access it using Image Viewer, it seems to be fine then. I have no idea why this is so - something flaky about Windows and drive formats, I presume.
My 2p.....
Re: Just out of curiosity....
Date: 8 Sep 2006 14:35 (UTC)Re: Just out of curiosity....
Date: 8 Sep 2006 14:42 (UTC)As Jay said, the camera is a Canon and the card was formatted by the camera. I can safely eliminate any Windows weirdness in this as I run Linux on the home desktop and on the laptop.
Re: Just out of curiosity....
Date: 8 Sep 2006 14:52 (UTC)Re: Just out of curiosity....
Date: 8 Sep 2006 15:12 (UTC)The reader worked enough that I could see multiple directories, I just couldn't load the files in them. I'm not sure we have an XP machine around and after using one at work I don't consider not having one at home to be a problem. Jay did read the card with his Mac and a different reader. The results show the pictures I took both before and after I handed off my camera so I doubt the pictures I'm missing are just hidden somewhere. Still, the card has not been wiped and won't be for a while as it is a backup of what pictures I do see.
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Date: 8 Sep 2006 14:48 (UTC)Boo.
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Date: 8 Sep 2006 15:14 (UTC)The lost images would have to be good. If you recall, when you took the pictures, did they 'freeze' on the LCD for a moment? They should have. And I guess we'll just have to do it all again next year.