Re: CoolPix 995 Connectivity Issues
- From: "michael adams" <mjadams25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:33:53 +0100
"Inyo" <inyo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g7v6hp$u76$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
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.
Two dumb questions
Did you refresh the display in Windows Explorer (which should be necessary)
to show the new Drive ?
Did you try rebooting with the camera already hooked up to the computer ?
(Which shouldn;t be necessary but might do the trick)
Oh and another couple of dumb questions
Was the camera switched on ( it was obviously switched on when you transfeered
the files to the laptop I know, but its maybe posible to forget)
How many times did you actually connect and disconnect the USB cable
at both ends ? As maybe a contact wasn't being made although it felt
as though it had been.
From reading the remainder of your post its clear that it can't be any of theusual suspects. The USB port is OK, 98SE recognises the USB port - if it
recognises the Zip drive as a mass storage device then clearly that driver
is present. As you copied the files fron the Zip disk clearly the file
format is ok. And the camera is OK.
As both the camera and cabling works o.k with the laptop - and the PC works with
other USB devices and did with this camera before, I'd give the plugging and
unplugging, refresh and reboot routines another whirl myself.
michael adams
....
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.
Fossils In Death Valley National Park
http://members.aol.com/Waucoba5/dv/dvfossils.htm#scenicimages
(I took virtually all of these images from Death Valley with the CoolPix 995
during occasional visits in 2002-2003--a minor few I snapped with a Nikon
35mm camera.) My working email address, by the way, is Waucoba4 at aol dot
com.
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