How to import pictures from your digital camera
Mon, 02/19/2007 - 09:55 — George
If you have a digital photo camera it is very likely that you will want to save your pictures on your PC. In this tutorial we will show you how to do that on Windows Vista.
Before we begin you should look at your photo camera's battery status. If you have low batteries, you should change or recharge them. If your camera will remain without power during the importing process, your memory card might get damaged.
After checking the battery status, connect your digital camera to the PC. There are three ways to do that: using a USB cable, a Firewire cable or thorough a Bluetooth connection. For this tutorial we will use a USB cable to connect our camera to the PC.
First, connect your digital photo camera and press the Power On button. Windows Vista will detect the camera and will install the appropriate drivers.
After the drivers installation is finished, the AutoPlay menu will pop-up.
Select the option Import pictures using Windows.
In the bottom right corner of the screen, a small window asking if you want to tag the pictures will appear. You can type a general tag for the pictures that you are about to import. Tags can be very useful for organizing and finding your pictures.
If you don't want to insert a tag just leave that space blank and click on Import.
If you want to customize the import settings, click the Options button. Now you can change the following settings: where to import the pictures (the default folder is Pictures - if you want another folder click on Browse and select or create that folder), the name of the folder (by default the name of the folder will be the date when the pictures are imported plus the tag you typed) and the file naming convention.
When you have finished, click the OK button. These settings will apply to all the pictures you will import from now on.
After you click on Import, Windows Vista starts moving all your pictures. If you want the pictures to be deleted from your camera after the import process is finished, click the Erase after importing checkbox.
After the process is finished, Windows Photo Gallery will start and you will be able to see all the pictures that were imported.
Now, turn off your camera and remove the connection cable from your PC.
NOTE: For this tutorial we used a HP Compaq nx7400 and an HP Photosmart M307 digital camera.
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Comments
"I cannot change any import
"I cannot change any import settings, there is no small window when the AutoPlay window is open nor when I start importing the pictures from the camera."
That's because there isn't one.
Open Windows Photo Gallery, click on File->Options. Select tab called "Import"
Import settings are hidden away in there.
not working.
I've imported pictures before with my parents kodak camera, but when my friend tries to import pictures with her nikon camera it doesn't do anything. Why does it only work with my camera and not hers? Awhile ago she was able to import them but now it doesn't work.
And I thought I was an
And I thought I was an expert with this, obviously I am not because I just learned here there are risks for my memory card if I don't check the battery first. I should also get some proper digital camera accessories, my data cable doesn't help me anymore and I want a better memory card.
Canon Digital Rebel XT
My camera will not download pictures with the Vista 64 bit laptop. Have any suggestions?
Do Not use Windows Explorer in Vista -- Looses Date
The more obvious way to import photos is simply to use Windows Explorer to copy or move them. They are just files, right? Wrong.
Windows explorer looses the date taken if the photos are just moved in the obvious way, for a Canon at least. And the Camera does not seem to have a UNC path at all. Thus not possible to script.
So need to use the easy-to-use option.
As the concept of generic files dies and every type of data becomes a special case the computer becomes ever more mysterious.
Choosing Pics to import
Every time I try to import pictures from my camera (Kodak C613) I cannot choose which pictures I want and it loads all pictures onto my computer. How do I choose the pictures?
EasyFix@Darrell
Instead of "import" click on "open device to view files". Select the files you want, with the help of Ctrl or Shift, click and simply drag them onto your favorite folder.
Yes, you can do that, but it
Yes, you can do that, but it doesn't allows you to name the pictures as a group like XP did. Any thoughts?
importing after getting a printer
I used to be able to import photos to my computer with no problem but since I got the HP Officejet J4580 All-In-One theirs been a problem importing my photos. I have a Vista. I've tried unpluggin my usb cord from my printer and connecting my usb cord from my camera but still nothing has been working. Can you help?
Changing the options
How do I change the options?
I accidentally set the settings to something I don't want and checked a box that said "Do this each time I import pictures." (or something similar to that)
How do I change my options?
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