Downsizing

[Bird]

<font color=blue>you have become, by now, truly expert; right</font color=blue>

You're kiddin'! I've been tempted for format the hard drive and start over!

<font color=blue>assume you have "PictureIt! 2000" or '99</font color=blue>

2001

<font color=blue>Is the collage for us?</font color=blue>

Someone last week asked for pictures of the hydraulic top 'n tilt and the old thread I did a long time ago is there, but the pictures are not available, so I thought I'd try to put 3 small pictures together like some of the rest of you do. I haven't gotten there yet, but I haven't given up yet either./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird

 

[GlueGuy]

Re: Digital Camera

Plower,

There are so many places to get a camera, I can't begin to make a suggestion. I've seen them at Walmart, and they have a fair selection. For the purposes of posting on this forum, or putting pix on a web site, you don't need anything fancy. However, I do recommend that you get at least a 1 Megapixel camera. With that, you will at least be able to print a decent snap shot (4"x6").

The GlueGuy

 

[Bird]

Rick, I finally managed to put 3 pictures on one page (600+kb in their format), then saved it in jpeg format (111kb) and now don't remember who or where the question was and don't know what the picture will look like, but I'm going to post it here and see what it looks like.

Bird

 

[Harv]

You da man, Bird! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

First a computer geek, and now a digital graphic artist. Don't want to use the term "old dog", but you certainly can learn new tricks! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[MikePA]

I can vouch for IrfanView as well as ThumbsPlus 4 (http://www.cerious.com). It's not free, but it has more features for cleaning up pictures, resizing, etc.

I also concur with http://www.dpreview.com. It's a great place to learn about digital cameras. Some things to considered;

1 - What media is the picture recorded on? There are cameras that record on flppy disks, Compact Flash (CF) cards, SmartMedia (SM) cards, CD-RW, etc.

2 -How much zoom would you like? Look only at the optical zoom and not the digital zoom number. You can digitally zoom a picture in software after you take the picture. There are cameras from 3x to 10x optical zoom.

3 - Related to Item 1...you will soon tire of using the USB connection for downloading pictures to your PC. Good media readers are available that permit you to take the SM card, or any other card type, out of the camera, place it in the reader and it looks just like another hard drive.

4 - As others have pointed out, most, if not all cameras and readers are USB so you'll need Win98, Win2000, or WinMe.

5- Don't get trapped in the 'more megapixels is better' debate. More megapixels is better, particularly for printing, but for web posting, as you discovered, less is better. For printing, a 2 megapixel camera will produce a good 8 x 10 print.

6 - Some of the cameras use proprietary batteries. I prefer the ones that use AA rechargables.

Any questions, just ask.

Mike Dowling

 

[TerryinMD]

I just purchased a Kodak DX3600 and it works great!!

Now for some Windows XP plugging... I installed the RC1 beta on my computer and it is working great. I plug in my digital camera using my handy-dandy USB, double click on My Computer and the camera is my H: drive. Double click on the H: drive and all of the pictures are displayed. I can copy, save, and delete them. Dang, it is slick.

I have been using MS PhotoDraw and it works similar to Photoshop. Still playing around with it trying to understand all of the bells and whistles. Took some pictures this weekend at an antique tractor show and will try to post a couple within the next few days.

Terry

 

[Gatorboy]

Mike,

How exactly does plugging in my USB cable to my camera (which then acts like a new drive) become tiresome over having to pull out my SmartMedia card and insert it into a card reader, and then remove it from the card reader and insert it back into my camera?

To make life even more simple I use the Ulead Photo Explorer Pro's Digital Camera Wizard to -- with one click -- copy all of my files from my camera into My Pictures directory and then delete the files off of my SmartMedia card.




Regards,
Dave "Gatorboy" Hoffmann
Fallston, Maryland

 

[MikePA]

I found it tiresome to have to have the camera on via batteries and/or AC adaptor, find a place to sit the camera, etc. Plus, since I typically load the pictures onto my laptop when I travel, it was one less cable to carry/lose. I use a PCMCIA SM reader with my laptop and a USB reader that can handle CF, SM and PCMCIA cards on my desktop. I typically take more than one cards worth of pictures as well. No need to put each one back into the camera.

Mike

 

[HR_Mutt]

Bird
The question about your setup was in Kubota Owning..under (believe it or not/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif)Will ag tires destroy my lawn.
regards
Mutt

 

[Bird]

Believe it or not? Yep, I'd believe it, Mutt. Occasionally some of us do get a little off topic./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif However, that one was a question just about the valve and only required one picture. So I'm still not sure where the question I had in mind is./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Like Harv said, I can occasionally learn a new trick; trouble is, by the time I learn it, I've forgotten why I wanted to./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bird