Re the camera: The connector conspiracy strikes again. I'm a bit surprised by that, though. Eric asked me to help with evaluating it, and I looked at it as a camera - but didn't think to look at the PC side...
Does it have a removable storage card? You might want to get a USB card reader - and that will be a good thing even if you could hook the camera up directly, since using a card reader saves camera batteries.
Thank you! I would like to take you up on your kind offer. I would like to see if I can get a card reader to work with my machine and my SD card. We can discuss it the next time Eric and I come over to visit--which probably won't be until the weekend.
It didn't come with one, but we just bought one for it. :-)
My concern about the card reader idea is that, if it turns out not to work with my machine, I'll have yet another device I can't use with my own machine. That's not a prospect I relish.
I ran the idea by Eric, and he had a different thought. He believes that if I got a newer motherboard for my machine, that would fix the problem, and he tells me that a card reader would cost about the same amount of money as a motherboard, nowadays.
Thanks for the suggestion, though. pmat has offered to let me try her card reader, so that we can see whether the model she has will work with my machine. If it does, I'll think more seriously about getting one.
I think it's more likely that Eric's knowledge about the cost of card readers is years out of date, and his knowledge about the cost of motherboards isn't. :-)
I'd still like to try out your card reader on my machine, though, if you don't mind.
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Does it have a removable storage card? You might want to get a USB card reader - and that will be a good thing even if you could hook the camera up directly, since using a card reader saves camera batteries.
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It didn't come with one, but we just bought one for it. :-)
My concern about the card reader idea is that, if it turns out not to work with my machine, I'll have yet another device I can't use with my own machine. That's not a prospect I relish.
I ran the idea by Eric, and he had a different thought. He believes that if I got a newer motherboard for my machine, that would fix the problem, and he tells me that a card reader would cost about the same amount of money as a motherboard, nowadays.
Thanks for the suggestion, though.
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I'd still like to try out your card reader on my machine, though, if you don't mind.