[WWI] Photo Transfer

[J.R. Boye]

 Hi John and Erik;
       Thanks for the tips. I will definitely look into getting set up with a card reader.
      Allan found my last batch, downloaded without the Kodak software, to be savable. I think if I can downsize them to 150 KB they will upload now. I'm working on that. My computer-savvy son in law comes back from Germany this week and he can probably guide me through that.....

                                          J.R.



----- Original Message ----
From: "knuterha at eunet.no" <knuterha at eunet.no>
To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2008 12:32:34 PM
Subject: [WWI] Photo Transfer

Hei,

I would strongly recommend buying a card reader, they are pretty cheap and:

1. Plug card reader into USB connection.
2. Insert card into reader.
3. Browse pictures on card the same way as on any disc.
4. Copy images over to your computer.
5. Open images in a suitable program by highlighting the file name, right
click on the mouse and select one of the options in "Open with"

Sometimes it helps to just make a copy of the image file NXXX.jpeg to
NXXX.jpg - for some reason do not all programs recognize files with the
extension .jpeg - but will do it for .jpg


Card can be removed from reader when you have finished copying over the
files you want - thre will usually be a flashing light when it is active.


  BRgds
Knut Erik



> Thanks, John;
>    Actually, I can get the photo files onto the "My Pictures" area in JPEG
> format. My camera has a supplementary memory card, but I don't know
> where the photos are stored. The camera manual is too basic to help,
> and the Kodak support site doesn't seem to address my problems.
>    I attached 5 of my photos today and sent them to my brother by e-mail
> and his computer said the 5 photos would take 53 minutes to download,
> but it could download them so maybe my files are too big for e-mail or
> web transfer now. Before, I thought this was a Kodak problem but maybe
> not now.
>     I can select "email photos" from the "My Photos" tool area and it will
> resize them, but then the window disappears after that and I don't
> know where the resized photos are- no more prompts or windows appear.
> When I go to "My Pictures", the files are still original size and I
> can't find the reduction tool.
>     So my photos don't seem to upload to my WWI page.
>     Before this, when I was using the "Easyshare" (what a misnomer!)
> software to e-mail photos, Allan wrote:
>     "I tried to look at the 'EZ Share' photos you sent me. While they're
> viewable in my mail program, nothing I do lets me save them. The Kodak
> software is doing something 'hinky' with the mime encoding in the
> mailer. What you sent me is unusable. This might be the same problem the
> upload is having. Can you get the photos off your camera right to your
> disk without using Kodak's web stuff?"
>         My son suggested that the Kodak software doesn't allow copying so
> professionals can show photos without them being ripped off.
>        Allan was able to copy the portrait I sent to the Rogue's gallery
> somehow, though, and that was from a Kodak album.
>       So now I have deleted the Kodak software ( I couldn't find any other
> way around it) and downloaded the photos using "photo and scan
> wizard" I sent them to "My Pictures", then tried to e-mail them to
> Allan, but I did not reduce the file size (2.95 MB each). If I can
> figure out how to reduce the file size, I'll try e-mailing them
> again. None of my attempts to upload any photo from any source to my
> WWI web page has worked. I get the file in the browse window, click
> upload, it submits the request and then...nothing.
>       We'll see what happens now. Suggestions are welcome. I'm not a
> techie, but this all seems a lot harder that it should be. Hopefully
> I'll get this figured out and put my stuff up on the website one of
> these years.....:-)
>
>                                                                  J.R. Boye
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Huggins <huggins1 at swbell.net>
> To: J.R. Boye <hopeandmercy at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:02:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Fw: Willie Coppens Hanriot
>
> JR,
> Are the photos on a memory card or stored in the camera's internal memory.
>  If they are on a card, use some sort of photo program (I use the Apple I
> Photo) and import them to your hard drive.  From there the photo program
> should be able to size and also optimize them for sending as email
> attachments.  The MAC Mail server also has the ability to size photo
> (TIFF) images within the message.
>
> I think that all the current photo archive apps and mail servers have this
> ability.  I may be wrong, as I haven't tried it on a PC.
>
> JP
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