It has been an awfully busy week. I have had several blog posts to put up, but they include pictures and I have nott had any time while sitting at the computer that has those pictures.
Anyway . . .
I was dealing with an Olympus Camedia Zoom 750 that I use with the maglock photo ID cards and it was causing me a huge headache.
You can connect it to a computer by USB, but the computer won’t recognize it’s memory card, Olympus has no software for it on the web site, the company that set up the equipment only provided drivers for it to run with the Identicard software, and then I couldn’t get some pictures off of it for anything even when using a card reader.
Fortunately, Tim (a media tech guy at the church who is heading to another church out of state) was able to get his Mac to recognize the card through the card reader. I was thinking about the data formats for these cards so I did a bit of research this evening and found a good article with tips on maintaining your camera’s memory card.
Causes of Memory Card Corruption
There is more technical info about different memory cards here: What is a Memory Card?.
Sure this info is easy to find, but I not really stopped to think much about camera memory cards.
Of course, I still love my good ol’ Panasonic PalmCam PV-SD4090 (PDF)with a 120MB SuperDisk floppy drive. Alhtough the two Lithium Ion batteries are suffering from old age issues and I can only find 3 of my SuperDisks and I rarely even find 1.44mb floppies anymore for this slow 1.3 megapixel camera I still like it a lot. After all, how many cameras have you ever used to do back-ups from a dying computer and had its storage the only lifeboat for many of your important files. It’s kind of like an old friend here in its ripe old age of 5 years.
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