Yes, I know this is a little off the mark, topic wise, but it doesn’t seem to fit any catagory and it is somewhat fly fishing related.
I took several photos of flies from a swap just completed. The memory card has 70 pictures on it and what I want to do is this:
Transfer the fly photos off the memory card in the camera to my computer.
Figure out how to create a link to the photos.
How, or is it possible, do I transfer specific photos from the memory card in the camera without transfering them all? Or do I have to transfer them all and then delete the 66 I don’t want in the set?
Then, once transfered to the computer, how do I create a link? I had planned on posting that link on a post in the ‘Swap’ bb.
Thanks for any information worded in a “How To … For Dummies”!
Your OS should recognize the memory card as a physical drive, i.e. like your Hard Drive (C: ), CD or DVD Drive (D:, E: or whatever) but it must be attached to the PC via a USB connection or the card placed in a card drive. Once you recognize the drive you simply copy, or move, the photos you want to the place on your hard disk you want them to be.
You can copy all of your pictures or just the ones you want to your computer.
You, however, can not post a link to your computer from this or any other bb unless your computer is an Internet server.
You need to:
1.) Reduce your pictures using photo/graphics software to a size suitable for the web. At 72 ppi try to keep the pictures under 500 pixels wide. In addition, compress them to reduce their file size. Try to keep them under 50K in file size. The smaller the files size the faster the load time. This is real important for viewers with dialup.
2.) Upload the picture(s) to your own personal web site like the one you get free with Internet service. Contact your ISP for information. You can also use one of the free photo hosting sites, like photobucket.com, to upload your pictures to.
3.) Once you have done that just copy the URL of your photo and place it in your post with the code as instructed in the “UBB code” link at the top of this page.
Tyeflies, the directions given by fisherjoe are excellent. I would add just a couple of comments.
You do need a photo editing program of some sort. Abobe Photoshop is what I use but there are many others available. You may have a built-in edit program with your computer or printer. Re-size the photos as Joe suggests and save them as .jpeg format, give them titles as you save them.
I use [url=http://myfishingpictures.com/:31474]http://myfishingpictures.com/[/url:31474] very simple to set up an account and to upload your pictures. You can build an album on their site and return to it whenever you want to post a picture. The site will give each photo a unique URL, copy it and paste it into your message using the following code, the brackets are next to the “P” character on your keyboard.
Tye,
Did your camera come with a disk and USB cord?..you’ll need these to get pics from your camera to your comp…
Once you get em on your comp…and can email them …
If I were you, Here is what I’d do.
Accomplish getting them in the comp and setup for mailing…
Email or just post here about’s For a request to one, Mr Chris Chin,aka… Our Man in Canada…The man seems to really know his stuff when it comes to the techie stuff…as I know how to email and size em and the like…but I’d never be able to post them here…lol…way to much tech involved for me…
Best advice I can lend ya…Seems like a great guy and I bet he’d gladly help you out…
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
“Wish ya great fishing”
Bill
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I can get pics from camera to puter. However, after I do they are still on the memory card inside the camera. I have to manually delete each phot. If I do not,the next time I transfer pics from camera to puter I will continue to get all the pics in the camera. So, if between transfer of say an initial bunch of 60 pics, I take 5 more and do another transfer, I’ll get a second bunch of 65 pics. I want to avoid that and be able topick which pics I transfer from memory card(camera) to puter.
Hope I explained that properly.
I’ll see if I can follow some of the excellent suggestions above.
I have a Nikon Coolpix 3100. What I do
to clear the memory card is press the menu
button, scroll to “CF card format” and
reset the card. It removes ALL of the pic’s
at one time. Hope this helps buddy. Warm
regards, Jim
Allan–you should have received a software disk with your camera. this software should contain minor editing software, including lighting effects, image cropping, and re-sizing tools.
by re-setting your preferences in the original software, you should be able to:
1-pick which photos you want transferred to your PC
2-dictate wether or not these pictures are automatically erased from the memory card upon transfer
3-automatically open your included photo editing software upon completion of the transfer.
for example: i have mine set up to automatically download all photos (300 at a time), automatically erase the photos from the memory card, and automatically open the editing/viewing software upon transfer completion. the only downside to this is, once the pics are off of my camera, i cannot put them back on, so i cant bring my camera out and show the pics. but, they are permanently on my harddrive, so i can make prints.
this way, i can view all my newly DL’ed photos, and decide which i want to kepp, and erase those i dont want. click the erase button, and they are gone…simple.
if you have any other questions, you can email me, from my profile.
Everyone dies. Only the lucky ever truly Live. Take your time.
I have a Nikon Coolpix 3200. As is usual, I’m having a tough time finding the ‘instruction booklet’. I’m sure I put it some place safe and that’ll be in the last place I look(-:
When you go inot the menu on the camera and choose delete, there is also an option to delete all images on the card. All cameras have this feature, or the consumers would riot. After transferring the images use this option to clear the card. I have heard of some that don’t like it if the files are removed while it is not in the camera.
For a Nikon, go into playback mode and then open the menu. Choose delete from the menu and you should get an option of all or jus tthe one being viewed. If you choose all it will ask again if you are sure, and let you know it will save images marked to be saved, and when you choose yes, it will delete all of the images. (At least the 5100 and 8700 use these steps to delete the images.)
If you would like, and it may be easier, you may E Mail me copies of those 15 keeper images full size, I can render them down for you (resize & filter them) and then host them on my server.
Then I could send you the links to the images to post them here, or I could post those images here for you in your swap thread with a couple of the images and then links to the rest so as not to bog down the FAOL server…
I would also send back the re-sized images so that you could have them for your own records.
Otherwise, follow the self help instructions of the others above and learn how to manage these files. It is a bit of an overbearing task the first time through unassisted and the tassk gets alot easier the more you do it.
Basic steps again:
Make a folder on your computer.
Transfer the images from camera to folder.
View images from folder on PC and cull(delete) those unwanted images.
From your Coolpix software, or a paint program or Photoshop etc. re-size and crop images.
Rename the downsized, cropped image files to same folder.
Upload renamed images to host server.
Create your Post on FAOL using HTML Tags and the URL of the images on your host Server.
Catch me early this weekend if you would like me to do this for you, as I am off on a trout fishing tour first of next week.
It is always a good idea after you have transferred your files from the card to a computer to reformat the card. The reason is to ensure that you do not write to a corrupted sector and loose valuable picture(s). By reformatting you reset the FAT table to ensure bad sectors are mapped so no files will be saved there. Erasing files does not ensure that the FAT table is updated. You can format the disk on your pc, but it is best to do this on your camera. If you do use your pc, use the FAT or FAT16 format command for cards 2 gig or less. If you have greater than a 2 gig card use the FAT32 format command, otherwise your system will not recognize the larger capacity and max you out at 2 gigs when in fact you have say 4 gigs.
Hope this help.
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when I start the program for the camera and select Download Pictures and movies, the window that pops up to do so, also has a little box that I check to have my pics wiped out from my camera, Mines an Evision Mega pro, That I got on sale through the aol store…think I got ripped off at $270.00
Have a few friends not to mention, the wife has a much cheaper cam from wally world that’ll do all mine will…and quite quicker and simpler at that…Funny thing is,When she wanted good pics of the New Baby…seems my cam is the one that was chosen…lol
I was also suggesting in my first post,That you could contact Chris Chin about emailing the pics to him…as hes offered to post for others on this site before…seems a great guy…
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Get a card reader for your memory card instead of using your camera. It will become a drive you can get your pictures from. Just go into a photo program and open files in that drive.