Pictures & internet cafe

[Ted]

Can any one tell me what I need to do to get pictures from camera to the net (UKGSer). I want to post pictures when on my charity trip (see link) but dont have my own lap top. How do I go about getting the pictures on when using a local internet cafe without having my own program loaded. I can take the lead and program disc but sure I wont be able to load my disc on to there system.

I am hoping to post some pictures and stuff so it generates some intrest for you guys and hopefully will turn into a donation.
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70834

 

[Wizard]

Get a USB Cardreader. The PC will recognise it as a "normal" mass storage device and use the standard Windows drivers.

 

[fcasado]

Take one of these with you and it might speed things up

They cost about a tenner and you read the memory card without the camera software, you actually wouldn't have a problem on Windows XP, but the older versions would be a pain.

 

[fcasado]

Get a USB Cardreader. The PC will recognise it as a "normal" mass storage device and use the standard Windows drivers.

I'm too slow to post

Exactly what he says...

 

[Ted]

Thanks gents will go shopping tomorrow

 

[Ted]

Just been and done the rounds of various camera and electrical/computer shops. But they all tell me I will need to load a program disc for the drivers (It comes with the reader).
Are they talking b***ks or any one recomend one that I can just plug and play.

 

[Fanum]

Just been and done the rounds of various camera and electrical/computer shops. But they all tell me I will need to load a program disc for the drivers (It comes with the reader).
Are they talking b***ks or any one recomend one that I can just plug and play.

Only if you're trying to use it with Win95/98 etc....it'll work with no drivers in XP

They are sold with the driver cd for older OS's though.

 

[Wizard]

Ah..... something I didn't think about

It depends on the data format of the card. I have one Panasonic that will go straight into a cardreader on any PC and a Fuji that needs software to be installed ("The disk in drive E is not formatted. Format it now?").

I can't recall if the Fuji will connect without software using it's own cable (lost the damn cable).

Hm.

 

[fcasado]

I have some of this in the cafe I work:

It'll be fine for XP/2000/98, no software needed, and if you ever walk into a cafe that's still got Win 95 don't worry about the memory card reader cause you'd struggle too much to load the pics that you'd give up

Link to buy it from your confy chair, no need to wonder around in the shops

 

[Ted]

Thanks fcasado

Just orderd one

 

[Micky]

Most camera shops will put the photographs from your camera card onto a CD quite cheaply... most internet cafes will allow you to use the CD to download the photographs!

Some internet cafes had slow machines, but a lot had Windows XP etc and it wasn't a problem. I bought an 'Apacer' to put the photographs onto a CD myself, but it broke two weeks into a five month trip.

We set up a yahoo.co.uk email address so no matter where we were we could update our website

www.adventure.gs