[DigiCam]

[Marc Stergionis]

At about 2:09 PM -0500 on 1/8/03, Mary C. Youra wrote:
>I realized she has no way to connect it to her iMac to download the 
>pictures. The iMac does not have either an external modem port 
>(round connection) or printer port which the PhotoPC requires--it 
>has USB and Firewire ports--nor does it have a PMCIA slot (which was 
>the other way we used to deal with this). Were there ever adapters 
>that would allow such hookups? Should I tell her to buy a card 
>reader of some sort and a compact flash card? Should I buy her a new 
>camera, figuring that this is just the tip of the iceberg? Epson's 
>site has new drivers, but no information about newer cables.

According to Epson documentation, you can use a CF card. Open the 
camera and see if it has one, but I doubt it, they appear to be 
optional. You can get a 32MB card and a Reader for $35-40.

This will give you a ton more capacity than the camera has (which you 
can't retrieve now anyway).

I'm guessing this is a 1.2 Megapixel camera, which is OK for 
snapshots. You can get no-name cameras of that resolution for under 
$100. But you'd still have to buy a card reader for them.

Conversely, the CF card and reader can be used with virtually any 
CF-based camera on the market today, in terms of future upgrades. For 
a "non-tech-savvy" person who just wants basic snapshots for the web, 
the Epson with a memory card should be fine.

Of course, you could always check eBay for a setup with optical zoom 
and accessories included. That would take time ... and you'd still 
have a mothballed Epson.

:)

-ms
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Marc Stergionis
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