Digi Cam Experiance

[superted666]

Just bought a new slimline Sony DSC-T7 and hooked it up to my mac to see how well it works.

Plugged in the cable and up poped i photo with my photos in seconds!
great i thought had a little play with them in iphoto and in photoshop - great no problems.

on a high i thought id plug it in my work laptop (new fuj centrino running xp sp2)

I heard the xp machine mak that noise it does when you plug a usb device in... waited nothing.

So opend "my computer" and looked and i could see it as a removable device so i opened it up and i could see the folders containing the images but i didnt want to use the device like a another folder i wanted more (what my mac can give me) so i searched my camera box and found a cd.

Installed it (had to restart my machine ) .....

It installed around five different shortcut folders under the start menu so i trawled through and found the picture/video viewer. it has the ability to view photos only and thats it ... no adjustments or anything.

Annoyed i uninstalled the software and the pc is never to see my camera again!

I hope vista takes a page out of apples book.

Rant over

 

[VanMac]

Just bought a new slimline Sony DSC-T7 and hooked it up to my mac to see how well it works.

Plugged in the cable and up poped i photo with my photos in seconds!
great i thought had a little play with them in iphoto and in photoshop - great no problems.

on a high i thought id plug it in my work laptop (new fuj centrino running xp sp2)

I heard the xp machine mak that noise it does when you plug a usb device in... waited nothing.

So opend "my computer" and looked and i could see it as a removable device so i opened it up and i could see the folders containing the images but i didnt want to use the device like a another folder i wanted more (what my mac can give me) so i searched my camera box and found a cd.

Installed it (had to restart my machine ) .....

It installed around five different shortcut folders under the start menu so i trawled through and found the picture/video viewer. it has the ability to view photos only and thats it ... no adjustments or anything.

Annoyed i uninstalled the software and the pc is never to see my camera again!

I hope vista takes a page out of apples book.

Rant over

Vista will still be microsoft crap.

 

[SummerBreeze]

Ah, another one of the many joys of using a Mac. I love how easy it is to use my hardware with my computer, you just plug it in and it works. My windows computer is similarly annoying. If I decide to plug my digital camera into my other computer, it takes me through a "wizard" that doesn't ever work that well. Printing is a nightmare and burning to CD isn't streamlined. Plus, I don't really get a chance to look at the meta data for the photos, and searching is ridiculous. iPhoto just does everything, and is so easy to use.

 

[fartheststar]

...it takes me through a "wizard" that doesn't ever work that well.

Microsoft has taken my childhood imagination of a cool wizard and made it something completely useless.