Great Program!
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:29 pm
This is to counter the previous anti-cam2pc threads.
This program is terrific. I recently "updated" to a Panasonic digital camera. The download software that came with the camera is worse than useless. I previously had a Ricoh, and the download software for that wasn't bad: it placed each pic, without intervention, into a folder of the date of the pic/s. The only downside was that it wouldn't change the filename - it just went in as "RIMGXXXX".
So, trolling around the net a came across cam2pc. I installed it and after a bit of fiddling around, I have got it to download each into a unique folder based on it's EXIF picture date (you can fully customise the folder names) which I have set up to match my previous Ricoh folders, and even better it changes the filenames to something understandable: eg 2007-12-31_0945-23.JPG.
Just what I have always wanted. But wait, there's more. I also own a Canon video camera that takes stills. After I installed the Canon Camera addin, cam2pc will also download pics from it as well! All I have to do is change the camera type on the downloader screen prior to downloading.
But wait...there's more! I just got a disk full of pics from my Mum of shots from a couple of years ago. I popped it into the drive, in cam2pc browsed to each folder on the CD and it downloaded, as above, all the pics from each folder (I had to do each folder one at a time - no big deal). Fantastic!
I use Picasa for picture org so I have no experience with the rest of cam2pc, but the download function is just superb. This program will be on my computers until I die.
Thanks a lot.
This program is terrific. I recently "updated" to a Panasonic digital camera. The download software that came with the camera is worse than useless. I previously had a Ricoh, and the download software for that wasn't bad: it placed each pic, without intervention, into a folder of the date of the pic/s. The only downside was that it wouldn't change the filename - it just went in as "RIMGXXXX".
So, trolling around the net a came across cam2pc. I installed it and after a bit of fiddling around, I have got it to download each into a unique folder based on it's EXIF picture date (you can fully customise the folder names) which I have set up to match my previous Ricoh folders, and even better it changes the filenames to something understandable: eg 2007-12-31_0945-23.JPG.
Just what I have always wanted. But wait, there's more. I also own a Canon video camera that takes stills. After I installed the Canon Camera addin, cam2pc will also download pics from it as well! All I have to do is change the camera type on the downloader screen prior to downloading.
But wait...there's more! I just got a disk full of pics from my Mum of shots from a couple of years ago. I popped it into the drive, in cam2pc browsed to each folder on the CD and it downloaded, as above, all the pics from each folder (I had to do each folder one at a time - no big deal). Fantastic!
I use Picasa for picture org so I have no experience with the rest of cam2pc, but the download function is just superb. This program will be on my computers until I die.
Thanks a lot.