who where wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:28:40 +0000, lid
(Adrian Tuddenham) wrote:
...I notice there is a camera
repair shop in London which claims to do economically-priced repairs on
this model.
Good luck with that (sincerely). You may also be able to locate a
pre-loved A420/430 for the same sort of cost.
I'll let you know how I get on.
My problem with buying a new camera is that I may not be able to get a
suitable card reader which works with my current Mac OS 8.6 system - and
I cannot change the OS because all my business software runs on it.
SD/MMC? Close to standard for very many cameras.
We have a couple of Canons here (A200 and A540), chosen for quick
point-n-shoot duty. They were selected because of key features on my
shopping list - AA batteries, macro, USB interfacing, etc etc - if you
start the hunt for a replacement with a "must-have" feature list
you'll surely have some success. (We don't read the card to retrieve
pics, we use ZB and the USB ports only).
That was a problem I had with the A420, the Mac could see the USB port
on the camera but the camera wouldn't allow access to the data without
its own software running on the Mac OS - and the drivers supplied by
Canon didn't work on OS 8.6
I solved the problem with a cheap USB card reader.
A friend has recently bought a card reader to use with her Sony camera
on Mac OS 8.6 and discovered theat it won't work because they now put
the reader software in the computer, not in the reader and ...guess
what... the card software won't run on OS 8.6 !
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