Problem transferring pictures from Kodak DX3500

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.dcameras (More info?)

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 23:30:21 GMT, Michael Cecil <macecil@comcast.net>
wrote:

>My mother has been using this camera fine for a few years now I guess. It
>has a 64Mb flash memory card but this problem occurs with out without
>using the card. I'm thinking that last night's storm might have zapped
>the camera. Anyhow, you can take pictures and view them in the camera
>fine. When you put the camera in the dock and press the button, XP pops
>up it's little wizard and you can preview the pictures just fine. The
>problem is after they are transferred, the full size pictures are
>corrupted. So unless the camera stores separate thumbnails for each
>picture, it appears the full pictures are being corrupted by the transfer
>process some how. I've only tried XP's native image acquisition wizard
>and I've tried transferring the files from the camera to the harddrive
>manually with explorer. Same results.
>http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/DCP_0939.jpg
>http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/DCP_0940.jpg
>http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/DCP_0941.jpg
>
>Next I'm going to try updating the camera's firmware and install the
>EasyShare software (although it's worked fine without either until today).
>
>Any other recommendations on what to try?

No one?

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Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.dcameras (More info?)

Greetings Michael,

I appreciate your situation Mike, and want to help. A review of the samples
you posted below tell me you likely have a camera problem? A good test
would be to take some pictures on a newly formatted card that you know is
OK. Capture a few pictures and try them on someone elses computer or at a
store. If the images appear OK then it is something other than the camera,
but if not you need to get the camera serviced or trade up to a new one. :-(

Talk to you soon Mike, let me know if you think I can help.

Ron Baird
Eastman Kodak Company



> My mother has been using this camera fine for a few years now I guess. It
> has a 64Mb flash memory card but this problem occurs with out without
> using the card. I'm thinking that last night's storm might have zapped
> the camera. Anyhow, you can take pictures and view them in the camera
> fine. When you put the camera in the dock and press the button, XP pops
> up it's little wizard and you can preview the pictures just fine. The
> problem is after they are transferred, the full size pictures are
> corrupted. So unless the camera stores separate thumbnails for each
> picture, it appears the full pictures are being corrupted by the transfer
> process some how. I've only tried XP's native image acquisition wizard
> and I've tried transferring the files from the camera to the harddrive
> manually with explorer. Same results.
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/DCP_0939.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/DCP_0940.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/DCP_0941.jpg
>
> Next I'm going to try updating the camera's firmware and install the
> EasyShare software (although it's worked fine without either until today).
>
> Any other recommendations on what to try?
>
> --