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dru
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Hi guys, having just about mastered some of the D70's many functions I decided to download the pics onto my laptop which was successful - but when I try to open the slide show or full screen facility I get the following message "The drive or network connexion that the shortcut 'DSC 1000-shortcut' refers to is unavailable. Make sure the disc is properly inserted or network resource available". If I connect up the D70 via the usb input to the laptop I can get the pics to run full screen and the slide show with no problems. As I've said on another post I bought the D70 from a friend and am wondering if I should have an installation disc. If an installation disc is required advice on how to obtain one would be much appreciated. Thanks again, Drew. P.S. luv the camera :thumbsup: |
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Robert
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Good to see you have arrived Drew. I can't address the PC issues but... As far as the installation disk is concerned it doesn't really contain any useful software. What it does contain will be so far out of date as to be useless. You should be able to download from the Nikon site the up to date basic software such as Nikon view. You need to download Faststone which I understand is free, or perhaps Lightroom 4 which has just been released and is top notch software allowing you a very wide range of non destructive adjustments and a recently introduced feature, GPS allowing you to easily add GPS data to any image. |
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richw
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Hi Dru, It sounds to me as if you need to transfer the files from the memory card in the camera onto your PC's hard drive. What software are you using to generate the slideshow? |
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jk
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Hi Dru glad you made it over here to the new forum. First your viewing problem. What I think has happened is that you have made a Shortcut to the files rather than actually copying them to your laptop. So what you need to do is delete all those short cuts on the laptop or copy all the files from the camera card to your laptop drive. The easiest way to do this is to open in file explorer, select all the image files then do a Ctrl+C. Then go to where you want to store them on your laptop again in File Explorer. When you are in the right directory do a Ctrl+V. This will pate the files there. When the copy has finished (it may warn you that the files exist there already if so say OK as this will overwrite the shortcuts). When that is done and you can view the files successfully on your PC without the camera being attached go and delete the files from the camera card. BTW. In you camera custom settings you need to have the setting called File No. Seq set to ON |
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jk
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One of the best softwares around for image viewing on the Windows platform is called FastStone Image Viewer. it is free and can be downloaded from here. http://www.faststone.org It is without equal for viewing and also allows you to edit many different RAW formats as well as JPG and TIFF files. Shame there is no Mac version. On the Mac the closest equivalent is Photo Mechanic which is equally good but costs $150. |
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whiteiris
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dru wrote:Hi guys, having just about mastered some of the D70's many functions I decided to download the pics onto my laptop which was successful - but when I try to open the slide show or full screen facility I get the following message Drew As the others have said, download a copy of Faststone. Then you can either use the USB cable from the camera direct, or remove the card and transfer the files via a card reader. If you go via the cable, Faststone should recognise the camera as an external drive and upload from it without any other software. Faststone will also open raw NEF files from your D70 without you needing to get another raw converter...if you decide to shoot raw files. |
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Doug
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Just use Lightroom, I don't know why a beginner would bother with any of these other over complicated or half baked solutions |
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jk
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On Windows FastStone is better than Lightroom if you want free software! The functionality in FastStone is amazing. Lightroom has a better RAW processing engine without dounbt. But most people who dont want to do extensive changes to their images would find it a big expense for not a lot extra compared to FastStone. On Mac then I'd agree with you absolutely. However for image browsing I find LR less good than PhotoMechanic. A personal thing. I use Lightroom for reviewing images with my customers as it is very easy and I can show them selected images by using filtering and keywords. |
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Doug
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jk wrote:I think photoMechanic is valuable for those further down the track who understand its rationale a bit more, Lightroom is a better tool for developing an understanding of that rationale For those on a Mac who are either beginner level or budget conscious I just recommend iPhoto |
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GeoffR
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Why not give Nikon Transfer a go, it is a part of View NX which is the software that comes with Nikon cameras. Obviously it is free but, it requires no expertise what so ever and can even be used with no setting up either. It may not do things exactly as you would want but it works. |
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dru
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Once again, thank you all for the help and advice you have given. I finally have the pics loaded onto the laptop and am really pleased - what a terrific bunch of guys you are - I will be going through the replies and take on board the suggestions for the laptop. I feel a bit sheepish regarding the laptop considering I have used pc's for over 20 years, but only for mundane work doing reports on 'word' etc. Afraid I never really got into the nitty gritty of them (had too many other things to do). Thanks again, Drew. |
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whiteiris
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dru wrote:Once again, thank you all for the help and advice you have given. I finally have the pics loaded onto the laptop and am really pleased - what a terrific bunch of guys you are - I will be going through the replies and take on board the suggestions for the laptop. I feel a bit sheepish regarding the laptop considering I have used pc's for over 20 years, but only for mundane work doing reports on 'word' etc. Afraid I never really got into the nitty gritty of them (had too many other things to do). Thanks again, Drew. Don't feel sheepish...it's amazing how we all have gaps in our knowledge that we never realised...until we need to use it. We are all still learning! :thumbsup: |
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