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Default Anybody recommend a good camera that I can use with Win98?

On Nov 25, 8:30*am, "Michael A. Terrell"
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Robert Macy wrote:

Like the subject, anybody know a good camera that I can use with
Win98?


I've been using the Motorola RAZR phone which has terrible images,
requires WinXP [ptui, ptui, cusre be gone!]


Is alright to get by, but images are like 60k and more of a thumbnail
image than a real image.


I just bought a Vivitar 16MPixel ViviCam S524, which listed the system
requirements on the back of the envelope. They left out that you MUST
have internet connection to download a huge bulky bloated program,
Plus, and this is far more important, model is NOT listed in included
CD, call to Customer Service informs that software not available yet,
wait 2 weeks and come back to their website ??!!!


So, what I need is a camera with decent image capability, that I can
download images through the USB port, and be done with it. I don't
want to connect to their websites, I don't want to download a program
that will take 24 hours to download via dial-up, I *just want a !@#$!#
$@%^^ camera!


* *Can't you just access the photos by treating the camera as a USB
Memory stick? *I do that with my Fuji Finepix S5200, and I've done it
with several other digital cameras. *On some cameras the photos are
three to five folders deep, but they can be viewed, copied or erased. *I
power up the camera, inset the USB cable and wait for the computer to
recognize the device. *Then I drill down to what I want.


Thanks, I didn't think to just 'try' it!

Damned thing makes NOISE! After fussing several times, took a picture.
connected via USB cable and saw nothing. Empty file structure. Then
tried again and this time found a single image, downloaded image and
it seems small at 156kB, but ok. Camera said memory full insert SD
card, but have no card. Memory shows up empty, and will not show any
new picture.

After that experience, no more pictures and no more images, the files
are blank on the USB port ?! Don't know what's going on.

May have to remove batteries and start again. But kind of works, and
got ONE picture only? But now that picture doesn't even show up.


Memory said 978KB available, all empty, picture takes 156kB, perhaps
that's bits and bytes to get one picture in that memory. nothing is
adding up. Plus, no more pictures.