Kodak camer turns off when connecting

  • Thread starter Thread starter Starvoyager
  • Start date Start date
S

Starvoyager

win xp home sp 3 alienware area 51 notebook. 3 gz 3 gigs ram 60 gig HD. Have
a kodak C 180 camera im trying to load the easy share software for the camera
when it gets to the point where it says to plug in the camera I connect the
cable and the camera turns off. I unplug it the camera turns back on. The
Kodak help support team was completly useless. the camera is new and the easy
share program is the latest. I hope I provided enough.

anyone?

Greg
 
Starvoyager said:
win xp home sp 3 alienware area 51 notebook. 3 gz 3 gigs ram 60 gig
HD. Have a kodak C 180 camera im trying to load the easy share
software for the camera when it gets to the point where it says to
plug in the camera I connect the cable and the camera turns off. I
unplug it the camera turns back on. The Kodak help support team was
completly useless. the camera is new and the easy share program is
the latest. I hope I provided enough.

anyone?

Greg
Click to expand...
====================================
Just my personal thoughts...I would forget about
the Kodak software and use a USB memory card
reader to download the files directly to a folder on
my hard drive from the memory card.

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
My thoughts also.

I loaded the Easyshare software when I first purchased my Kodak camera.

What an unfriendly and mostly useless application!

I acquired a Card Reader, removed Easyshare and made my life much simpler.

Have a choice of Picasa or DIS 6.0 for storage and manipulation/editing.

Life is good.

Happy Holidays to all.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
Gord said:
My thoughts also.

I loaded the Easyshare software when I first purchased my Kodak
camera.

What an unfriendly and mostly useless application!

I acquired a Card Reader, removed Easyshare and made my life much
simpler.

Have a choice of Picasa or DIS 6.0 for storage and
manipulation/editing.

Life is good.

Happy Holidays to all.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
Click to expand...
======================
Hey Gord...

Have a great holiday season!

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
win xp home sp 3 alienware area 51 notebook. 3 gz 3 gigs ram 60 gig HD. Have
a kodak C 180 camera im trying to load the easy share software for the camera
when it gets to the point where it says to plug in the camera I connect the
cable and the camera turns off. I unplug it the camera turns back on. The
Kodak help support team was completly useless. the camera is new and the easy
share program is the latest. I hope I provided enough.

anyone?

Greg
Click to expand...
Can you turn the camera back on wile it's attached to the P/C?
Is the camera battery fully charged and up to snuff?
Finally, Some computers have software compatibility problems with Easy
Share. In general, digital cameras have more than one mode of operation,
and the mode setting may be part of the problem.
The Kodak C180 has a "Pic bridge" mode/function that expects to be
connected directly to a printer via the USB cable. You may need to set
the camera's menu to specific settings to connect to a computer. These
settings are often listed in an addendum or other in-obvious section of
the manual.

One of my cameras (A Kodak) is an example of how a Mfr. can make life
difficult.
The battery door (of all things) must be open if you wish to connect to
a computer. Another camera has a default mode that appears to a computer
as a disk drive, a menu selection option for "print image matching"
(Somewhat like "pic bridge"), and documented in a manual supplement, a
remote control and firmware update mode.

It's usually simpler and more reliable to use a memory card reader and
the memory module from the camera. The transfer is faster, and does not
require that the camera battery be "up to snuff".
Really, really old Kodak cameras had a non standard picture file format
that required the user to use Easy Share or it's predecessors to convert
the pictures to a standard format.
 
I will second the suggestion to dump the ES software and use a Card Reader.

Find a good Free)application(IrfanView and/or Picasa come to mind) for basic
editing and excellent organization of Photos.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
Chuck said:
Can you turn the camera back on wile it's attached to the P/C?
Is the camera battery fully charged and up to snuff?
Finally, Some computers have software compatibility problems with Easy
Share. In general, digital cameras have more than one mode of operation,
and the mode setting may be part of the problem.
The Kodak C180 has a "Pic bridge" mode/function that expects to be
connected directly to a printer via the USB cable. You may need to set the
camera's menu to specific settings to connect to a computer. These
settings are often listed in an addendum or other in-obvious section of
the manual.

One of my cameras (A Kodak) is an example of how a Mfr. can make life
difficult.
The battery door (of all things) must be open if you wish to connect to a
computer. Another camera has a default mode that appears to a computer as
a disk drive, a menu selection option for "print image matching" (Somewhat
like "pic bridge"), and documented in a manual supplement, a remote
control and firmware update mode.

It's usually simpler and more reliable to use a memory card reader and the
memory module from the camera. The transfer is faster, and does not
require that the camera battery be "up to snuff".
Really, really old Kodak cameras had a non standard picture file format
that required the user to use Easy Share or it's predecessors to convert
the pictures to a standard format.
Click to expand...

Totally agree with everyone that a reader is the way to go for file
transfer. My older DC290 has software that will allow the camera to be
controlled by a Win9x computer, as in taking pictures, and the BIOS to be
updated(did it once).

Making sure the camera is set correcty would be the first thing to do.

USB can be a reall problem. This is just generic help info. If I felt like
the camera really needed to be hooked up I'd uninstall any camera software,
disconnect all USB devices then go into Device Manager and uninstall
everthing to do with USB reboot the computer and let it reinstall the
motherboard/card USB drivers. Follow mfg directions as to whether Camera USB
drivers are installed before or after device attachment. Try again. USB
getting messed up can happen no matter what but doing things in the proper
order can go a long way to keep it to a minimum.

The 290 predates Easy Share and uses .jpg and .tif so format used must be
model dependant not just age. Still a great little P&S for less critical
use.
 
Back
Top