Re: CoolPix 995 Connectivity Issues
- From: dplatt@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Platt)
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:22:17 -0700
In article <g7v6hp$u76$1@xxxxxxxx>, Inyo <inyo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So the other day I decide to haul out my first digital camera, the Nikon
CoolPix 995, a device I'd not used in some three years, to photograph
several fossils to include at one of my paleontology web pages.
After the shoot, I hooked the 995 to the USB port (using the cable that came
with the camera), as I'd always done in the past, of course, and patiently
waited for the new drive letter to appear on My Computer (I'm using Windows
98SE)--but, the images never transferred to the computer. They remained
locked inside the camera.
Rather frustrated, to say the least, I then hooked the 995 (using the same
cable that came with the camera) to the USB port on our Toshiba laptop.
Presto...the images tranferred with no problems encountered. As an
additional experiment, to try to narrow down the difficulties, I attached to
my PC through the USB port a portable Zip drive--once again, my PC
immediately recognized the Zip drive and I was able to tranfer the images of
fossils from the Zip to my PC.
OK--at this point I'm figuring that both the cable and USB are fine. I'm
also supposing that the issue may have to do with a lack of transfer of the
necessary drivers from 995 to PC. Probably I'm sounding rather ignorant
here. At any rate...any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
It could be that your Windows 98SE system doesn't have the "USB mass
storage" driver. If this is the case, the camera's storage would not
show up at all as a mass-storage device (e.g. in the disk formatting
tool).
See http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php to see if
the information there helps the situation.
Windows 98SE should support the FAT32 filesystem (which some cameras
use) so that shouldn't be a problem.
It's also possible, I suppose, that the USB port on your 98SE system
is bad (physically) or has some sort of BIOS/port/IRQ conflict which
is preventing it from operating. Check the Windows device-manager
window to confirm that the USB port is actually enabled.
--
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