alternate fujifilm camera software

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I have a FujiFilm MX-1200 digital camera. It is nothing special, but the
software for it called Picture Shuttle really sucks. Is there any other
software I can use to download the pictures from the camera to the computer?
 
badgolferman said:
I have a FujiFilm MX-1200 digital camera. It is nothing special, but
the software for it called Picture Shuttle really sucks. Is there
any other software I can use to download the pictures from the camera
to the computer?
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Hmm, it seems Irafnview has come to the rescue once again.
 
I had the same problem with my Fuji FinePix 3800. I use Adobe photoshop
mostly, or L-View Pro. and the prog that came with it sucked. I hooked the
camera up USB and when Windows asked for the driver disk I put it in and it
just took the drivers. I just cut the files in my file manager prog and
paste them into whatever folder I want, to use with any program I want.
 
On 27 Dec 2003, Larry Tilander wrote
I had the same problem with my Fuji FinePix 3800. I use Adobe
photoshop mostly, or L-View Pro. and the prog that came with it
sucked. I hooked the camera up USB and when Windows asked for the
driver disk I put it in and it just took the drivers. I just cut
the files in my file manager prog and paste them into whatever
folder I want, to use with any program I want.
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Same solution here -- I extracted the USB driver and ditched the rest.

Fuji's "Finepix Viewer" was terrible: it just set the camera as a
removable disk, and I had to drill down the folders to extract the
images anyway. I tried an upgrade from Fuji's site, but it hadn't
improved -- they had, though, stuck in an unremoveable sidebar for
their on-line services. (I really detest programs that claim screen
real estate that way.)

The really annoying thing was the size of the program -- when I junked
the upgraded "Finepix Viewer" in favour of just using Irfranview and/or
my image editor (PhotoImpact), I reclaimed something like 50 to 60 MB
on my hard disk.
 
Fuji's "Finepix Viewer" was terrible: it just set the camera as a
removable disk, and I had to drill down the folders to extract the
images anyway. I tried an upgrade from Fuji's site, but it hadn't
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Why not drill down once and make a shortcut. No more drilling down.

Or use Cam2PC, which does it for you. Just click File,,Get Pictures. It will
remember where to get them and what you wish to do with them from then on.
Click click done.

It's a good picture viewer too. It's bloated, but runs dead fast on a P4
with 256 RAM and a decent video card.

Bob
 
On 27 Dec 2003, Bob Adkins wrote
Why not drill down once and make a shortcut. No more drilling
down.

Or use Cam2PC, which does it for you. Just click File,,Get
Pictures. It will remember where to get them and what you wish to
do with them from then on. Click click done.

It's a good picture viewer too. It's bloated, but runs dead fast
on a P4 with 256 RAM and a decent video card.
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Thanks; those are good ideas, but I'm finding it very straightforward
just to use Irfranview to display the thumbnails; view and save the
ones I want; and delete from the memory card.

Easy-peasy, and no bloatware involved!
 
On that special day, badgolferman, ([email protected])
said...
I have a FujiFilm MX-1200 digital camera. It is nothing special, but the
software for it called Picture Shuttle really sucks. Is there any other
software I can use to download the pictures from the camera to the computer?
Click to expand...

Not exactly software, and not exactly free, but apart from IrfanVier
(which I think is a good solution to the problem) you may also buy some
cardreader and insert whatever kind of memory the camera may hold. I do
it with a Practica SD card, and it is easier to plug in the card reader
with the SD inserted, and read it, than to connect a) the camera to the
power supply and b) the tiny plug of the USB cable to the camera and the
other one to the computer. I was always afraid that one bad day I would
break the plug, as it is looking quite delicate.


Gabriele Neukam

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badgolferman said:
I have a FujiFilm MX-1200 digital camera. It is nothing special, but the
software for it called Picture Shuttle really sucks. Is there any other
software I can use to download the pictures from the camera to the
Click to expand...
computer?

i've been using a canon a20 for two years, and now an a70. great cameras,
but i downloaded and installed a few times the drivers, by which you can see
the images with a twain compliant app like photoshop, but every time they
get messy and dont work any longer.

now i use a pcmcia adapter with the laptop, and a multi-card reader with the
desktops, and just copy the files with explorer or salamander (faster). in
win2000 they just install a new 'hardisk' driver for each different type of
cf you plug in. a friend had some trouble with xp. dont know with 98.

also, the cameras dont like windows cf formatting, so i only format the cf's
in the canons.

btw, it is a bit more sure working on copies on the hd while you still have
your original files on the card...

hth, ciao, j.
http://www.sundaysw.com/
 
Thanks; those are good ideas, but I'm finding it very straightforward
just to use Irfranview to display the thumbnails; view and save the
ones I want; and delete from the memory card.

Easy-peasy, and no bloatware involved!
Click to expand...

Whatever floats yer boat! :)

Bob
 
Not exactly software, and not exactly free, but apart from IrfanVier
(which I think is a good solution to the problem) you may also buy some
cardreader and insert whatever kind of memory the camera may hold. I do
it with a Practica SD card, and it is easier to plug in the card reader
with the SD inserted, and read it, than to connect a) the camera to the
power supply and b) the tiny plug of the USB cable to the camera and the
other one to the computer. I was always afraid that one bad day I would
break the plug, as it is looking quite delicate.
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I second that!

Card readers are very cheap. Even a USB2 with all popular media slots isn't
more than dinner for 1.

Bob
 
I second that!

Card readers are very cheap. Even a USB2 with all popular media slots isn't
more than dinner for 1.

Bob
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That was the easiest solution for me. I found a USB four slot reader
for US$16.00. It reads four different memory card formats and was plug
and play. It shows up as four removable disk drives, one for each
slot. There have been some six slot units around, so it doesn't matter
what type of card your new devices use.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP
 
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