Kodak Easyshare Z700 w/Series 3 camera dock...

Roy wrote:
> "threefeathers" <threefeathers.TakeThisOut@memoriesmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1124517665.923861.57710@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >I just purchased my very first digital camera along with a camera
> > dock... and I'm about as amateur as they come. I suspect that I'll be
> > asking alot of really dumb questions in the near future. Wish me luck!
> >
>
>
> Sure thing.
>
> Have lots of fun and good shooting with your digital camera.
>
> Please however note that you would be best describing yourself as a Newbie
> or Learner.
>
> Amateur just means someone who does not do photography for financial gain,
> and I can assure you that some Amateurs are truly expert at their Hobby.
> Some of their Significant Others, would describe it as an Obsession rather
> than a Hobby.
>
> Roy G


Newbie it is then... striving to be an obsessive hobbyist. Yeehaw!!!
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Ralph Mowery wrote:
> "threefeathers" <threefeathers.DeleteThis@memoriesmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1124517665.923861.57710@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > I just purchased my very first digital camera along with a camera
> > dock... and I'm about as amateur as they come. I suspect that I'll be
> > asking alot of really dumb questions in the near future. Wish me luck!
>
> Good luck. Use the dock for quick prints to give to visitors. Take the
> card out of the camera to Wal-Mart or similar and let them do the printing.
> YOu can even send the pix you want to them via email and pick them up in
> about an hour. I think their prints are about $ .25 vers the $ .50 to $ .75
> each you will pay for the docking station prints.
> Make sure you back up the prints off the hard drive to a CD or don't
> complain here when the hard drive fails and you loose all your pix.


Been there... done that... more times than I care to remember. Thanks
for reminding me.
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"threefeathers" <threefeathers.TakeThisOut@memoriesmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124517665.923861.57710@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I just purchased my very first digital camera along with a camera
> dock... and I'm about as amateur as they come. I suspect that I'll be
> asking alot of really dumb questions in the near future. Wish me luck!

Good luck. Use the dock for quick prints to give to visitors. Take the
card out of the camera to Wal-Mart or similar and let them do the printing.
YOu can even send the pix you want to them via email and pick them up in
about an hour. I think their prints are about $ .25 vers the $ .50 to $ .75
each you will pay for the docking station prints.
Make sure you back up the prints off the hard drive to a CD or don't
complain here when the hard drive fails and you loose all your pix.
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Roy wrote:
> "threefeathers" <threefeathers DeleteThis @memoriesmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1124517665.923861.57710@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> I just purchased my very first digital camera along with a camera
>> dock... and I'm about as amateur as they come. I suspect that I'll be
>> asking alot of really dumb questions in the near future. Wish me luck!
>>
>
>
> Sure thing.
>
> Have lots of fun and good shooting with your digital camera.
>
> Please however note that you would be best describing yourself as a Newbie
> or Learner.
>
> Amateur just means someone who does not do photography for financial gain,
> and I can assure you that some Amateurs are truly expert at their Hobby.
> Some of their Significant Others, would describe it as an Obsession rather
> than a Hobby.
>
> Roy G
>
>
I have even heard the term 'disease' applied to it. Grin.


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Ralph Mowery wrote:
> "threefeathers" <threefeathers.RemoveThis@memoriesmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1124517665.923861.57710@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> I just purchased my very first digital camera along with a camera
>> dock... and I'm about as amateur as they come. I suspect that I'll be
>> asking alot of really dumb questions in the near future. Wish me luck!
>
> Good luck. Use the dock for quick prints to give to visitors. Take the
> card out of the camera to Wal-Mart or similar and let them do the printing.
> YOu can even send the pix you want to them via email and pick them up in
> about an hour. I think their prints are about $ .25 vers the $ .50 to $ .75
> each you will pay for the docking station prints.
> Make sure you back up the prints off the hard drive to a CD or don't
> complain here when the hard drive fails and you loose all your pix.
>
>
I had a HD crash. First failure since I got a HD about 15 years ago.
Now my pictures get copied to all 4 of the drives I have on three
computers....


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On 19 Aug 2005 23:01:05 -0700, "threefeathers" <threefeathers RemoveThis @memoriesmail.com>
wrote:

>I just purchased my very first digital camera along with a camera
>dock... and I'm about as amateur as they come. I suspect that I'll be
>asking alot of really dumb questions in the near future. Wish me luck!


CONGRATULATIONS !

You're past the most expensive part.

Now, go take dozens of pictures at a time. ( they're FREE ! )
Load 'em into your computer,
study, crop, adjust, save
and take more pics.

Experiment with every camera setting.

Practice makes perfect.

<rj>
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On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:01:57 -0500, Ron Hunter wrote:

>> Make sure you back up the prints off the hard drive to a CD or don't
>> complain here when the hard drive fails and you loose all your pix.
>>
>>
> I had a HD crash. First failure since I got a HD about 15 years ago.
> Now my pictures get copied to all 4 of the drives I have on three
> computers....

You too? My computer was down for several days but it wasn't due
to a hardware failure. I have a number of apps. that do a lot of
disk writes and they've always been reliable. Windows, on the other
hand tends to occasionally randomly crash when its Explorer copies
or moves files if the computer has been running more than a day or
so. After the crash most programs ran, but Explorer could no longer
copy files. Programs could be started by double clicking on their
icons, but the icons couldn't be repositioned. The worst was DUN,
which could dial and connect to ISPs, but couldn't log in.
Fortunately, I was able to restore the Windows directory (and
several of its subdirectories such as SYSTEM) from a fairly old
tape.

Only a few minor problems had to be fixed, most due to running
with a quite old copy of the registry. It produced a few benefits
too. Windows is still slow to load, but not nearly as sluggish in
operation as it was. And even with the older version of DUN that
was restored, internet throughput is up 10% to 15%. Along the way I
installed a new copy of Windows and it flies - loads in a little
less than 1/10th the time. But without DUN it was unusable. Now
that the computer is working again I might migrate all of the
windows apps to the fresh copy of Windows. Unlike your method
(new?) using multiple hard drives, all of my pictures had been
copied to CDs (with duplicates made) as well as certain other
critical files. But the DAT8 tape drive finally had a chance to
prove its worth. Like the computer, it's made by HP - rugged and
reliable. Unlike a certain Sony tape drive that turned out to be
the most unreliable piece of computer junk I've ever had the
misfortune to own. As with your experience, I've found hard drives
to be quite reliable. Only one Seagate (a Barracuda) has ever
failed, but all of the others keep chugging along. Didn't you say
something a couple months ago about reinstalling Windows not being
worth the effort?
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ASAAR wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:01:57 -0500, Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>>> Make sure you back up the prints off the hard drive to a CD or don't
>>> complain here when the hard drive fails and you loose all your pix.
>>>
>>>
>> I had a HD crash. First failure since I got a HD about 15 years ago.
>> Now my pictures get copied to all 4 of the drives I have on three
>> computers....
>
> You too? My computer was down for several days but it wasn't due
> to a hardware failure. I have a number of apps. that do a lot of
> disk writes and they've always been reliable. Windows, on the other
> hand tends to occasionally randomly crash when its Explorer copies
> or moves files if the computer has been running more than a day or
> so. After the crash most programs ran, but Explorer could no longer
> copy files. Programs could be started by double clicking on their
> icons, but the icons couldn't be repositioned. The worst was DUN,
> which could dial and connect to ISPs, but couldn't log in.
> Fortunately, I was able to restore the Windows directory (and
> several of its subdirectories such as SYSTEM) from a fairly old
> tape.
>
> Only a few minor problems had to be fixed, most due to running
> with a quite old copy of the registry. It produced a few benefits
> too. Windows is still slow to load, but not nearly as sluggish in
> operation as it was. And even with the older version of DUN that
> was restored, internet throughput is up 10% to 15%. Along the way I
> installed a new copy of Windows and it flies - loads in a little
> less than 1/10th the time. But without DUN it was unusable. Now
> that the computer is working again I might migrate all of the
> windows apps to the fresh copy of Windows. Unlike your method
> (new?) using multiple hard drives, all of my pictures had been
> copied to CDs (with duplicates made) as well as certain other
> critical files. But the DAT8 tape drive finally had a chance to
> prove its worth. Like the computer, it's made by HP - rugged and
> reliable. Unlike a certain Sony tape drive that turned out to be
> the most unreliable piece of computer junk I've ever had the
> misfortune to own. As with your experience, I've found hard drives
> to be quite reliable. Only one Seagate (a Barracuda) has ever
> failed, but all of the others keep chugging along. Didn't you say
> something a couple months ago about reinstalling Windows not being
> worth the effort?
>

I don't know what version of Windows you are using, but I have no such
problems with WinXP. Explorer does crash now and then, but I have never
had it cause any serious problem with the HD. One failure in 15 years
is pretty good luck, as far as I am concerned.
I much prefer external HD to any other backup medium. For the price of
one of those old DAT tape units, you can buy a 200GB external drive now.

As for reinstalling Windows, that's for upgrades, and hard crashes, in
my book, not for 'routine cleanup'.


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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:06:17 -0500, Ron Hunter wrote:

> I don't know what version of Windows you are using, but I have no such
> problems with WinXP. Explorer does crash now and then, but I have never
> had it cause any serious problem with the HD. One failure in 15 years
> is pretty good luck, as far as I am concerned.

It's an oooold version. Not quite 16-bit, but close. I believe
the problem is related to the way it uses the registry. But that's
a topic better suited for another time and place.


> I much prefer external HD to any other backup medium. For the price of
> one of those old DAT tape units, you can buy a 200GB external drive now.

Tape drives always were more expensive than several hard drives.
But tapes, on the other hand are far cheaper. I don't backup the
home computer nearly as often as businesses normally do, but with
the tape rotation method that I use, it pretty much assures me of
being able to recover any file that is corrupted, whether by
accident or by a virus. I'd imagine that very few 200GB drives are
used to keep dozens of full backups going back a decade or more.
Most people that use hard drives as backup devices rarely have more
than one or two full backups available. And if full backups are
made monthly, it's highly unlikely that a file damaged 6 months ago
but not noticed until now will be able to be restored. And as was
just mentioned in one of the "wedding photographer" threads,
sometimes even one backup camera body isn't enough. A lightning
strike can take out all of your hard drives in a flash (p.i.), even
those not powered on. No such danger with tapes. And yes, tape
drives can also fail, but I have several, never have more than one
attached to A.C. or a computer, and they're rotated too.
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