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Folks,

Does anyone know how to send JPG images from a PC to the memory card in
my digital camera, so that I can use the camera to display the images on
the TV. The memory card looks like a normal disk drive to Windows.

Please note that the images I want to upload and display are a random
selection of JPG images which were NOT taken with a digital camera.

Cheers

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Neil

Neil wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Does anyone know how to send JPG images from a PC to the memory card in
> my digital camera, so that I can use the camera to display the images on
> the TV. The memory card looks like a normal disk drive to Windows.
>
> Please note that the images I want to upload and display are a random
> selection of JPG images which were NOT taken with a digital camera.
>
> Cheers
>
Why not just drag and drop using windows explorer?

That's what I normally do if I want to put images on a memory card


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Robert Maskill
Peterborough Cambridgeshire
Coastal Radio Stations www.coastalradio.greater-peterborough.com
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>Getting the files on is easy enough, but getting the camera to display
>them could be awkward and totally depends on how smart the camera is.
>You might find you'll have to convert all the pictures to a certain
>size, format and compression ratio which matches one which the camera
>takes before it'll read them and display them.
>
>
>andyt
>

Folks,
I've been told that some cameras store a thumbnail image for each main
JPG image taken, it is the thumbnail that is displayed on the camera
LCD, the JPG is displayed on the TV or downloaded to the PC. Each
thumbnail has to match each JPG for the camera to display the photos
correctly.

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Neil

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) wrote

> >Getting the files on is easy enough, but getting the camera to display
> >them could be awkward and totally depends on how smart the camera is.
> >You might find you'll have to convert all the pictures to a certain
> >size, format and compression ratio which matches one which the camera
> >takes before it'll read them and display them.
> >andyt

> Folks,
> I've been told that some cameras store a thumbnail image for each main
> JPG image taken, it is the thumbnail that is displayed on the camera
> LCD, the JPG is displayed on the TV or downloaded to the PC. Each
> thumbnail has to match each JPG for the camera to display the photos
> correctly.

This subject has been interesting so I have been playing
about with my set up to see the effects. I use a Kodak
DX6490 SD card and Single Type Card Reader. So far I have
been Drag and Drop. Anyway, the card is formatted into two
folders - DCIM and Misc. Photo data is stored in a folder
created by the camera and labled 100k6490 and is located
in folder DCIM. all photo's are labeled by the camera as
100_0830 for example. The last four digits are sequential
and never rpeated. For example the above number means I
have taken 830 photo's with it so far.

I can take any JPEG and provided the file is labeled
100_[sequential number prior to current end number] .jpg
and place it in a folder labeled 100k6490 in the DCIM folder
on the card then the camera will display it. I can do it with any
picture file that is JPG. Even one created in Ulead as a backdrop
for a web page. I have also used the camera to record sound.

>
>This subject has been interesting so I have been playing
>about with my set up to see the effects. I use a Kodak
>DX6490 SD card and Single Type Card Reader. So far I have
>been Drag and Drop. Anyway, the card is formatted into two
>folders - DCIM and Misc. Photo data is stored in a folder
>created by the camera and labled 100k6490 and is located
>in folder DCIM. all photo's are labeled by the camera as
>100_0830 for example. The last four digits are sequential
>and never rpeated. For example the above number means I
>have taken 830 photo's with it so far.
>
>I can take any JPEG and provided the file is labeled
>100_[sequential number prior to current end number] .jpg
>and place it in a folder labeled 100k6490 in the DCIM folder
>on the card then the camera will display it. I can do it with any
>picture file that is JPG. Even one created in Ulead as a backdrop
>for a web page. I have also used the camera to record sound.
>
>
>

My Olympus has a folder named 100.. for the jpg images, and if I upload
a scanned jpg file with a valid filename and an Olympus-specific header
(pre-pended to the file with a file editor) my camera does try to
display the image without flagging an error - so I'm making progress.
All I have to do now is ensure the header data is correct and then think
of some way of automating the process to make uploading images easier.

--
Neil

>
>My Olympus has a folder named 100.. for the jpg images, and if I upload
>a scanned jpg file with a valid filename and an Olympus-specific header
>(pre-pended to the file with a file editor) my camera does try to
>display the image without flagging an error - so I'm making progress.
>All I have to do now is ensure the header data is correct and then think
>of some way of automating the process to make uploading images easier.
>

Done it, a piece of cake! My camera software has an option (in an
obscure place) which allows me to save any jpg file as an Exif file,
which is the format my camera understands. Once the Exif file is
suitably named and uploaded it is indistinguishable from an Exif file
crated by the camera. So I don't need that DVD player or a vga-to-tv
adapter for my PC ....

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Neil