Not all operating systems handle the downloading of photos from digital cameras that well as Windows 7. The operating system automatically recognizes the photos and displays an option to transfer them to a location on the computer system, usually the My Pictures folder. Some operating systems do not offer that feature which means that their users have to resort to the manufacturer’s software, a third party software or manual way of transferring the photos.
Camera downloader is such a third party software. The software has a size of only 37 Kilobytes and is fully portable. It comes with an xml configuration file that the user needs to edit before the first run. Especially the local path for the saved photos and the path to the photos on the digital camera are important to edit.
The program displays a small user interface whenever it is started that can be used to configure the photo transfer. It is here possible to change the target directory, select a folder name for the photos that are downloaded and make the decision if the photos should be moved or overwritten.
Moving the photos will move them from the camera to the folder and overwrite will overwrite any existing photos in the target folder.
Photo Downloader is a handy program for users who want to transfer photos from their digital camera semi-automatically. The portable software program can be downloaded from Codeplex.
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What I REALLY want is the old Winxp wizard. It gives you the option to select some pics, name them and then copy them off the camera. Go back, selct more pics, give them a different name and copy those off the camera…rinse, repeat till done.
Currently using Win7 x64…thank GAWD for Win Virt PC.
I early listen about Camera downloader, looks very good software. Today i will to use this software.
I find the “as well as Windows 7″ statement amusing, due to a personal experience. I was on a road trip and realized I had forgotten my memory card reader for my camera. Rather than try and track one down (I wasn’t anywhere near a place that would sell them) I used the mini-USB cable to try and copy the pictures. It’s an older Canon, but when I tried to hook it up to WinXP or Win7, both prompted for drivers in order to read the camera’s memory card contents. I booted into Ubuntu as a last resort (I triple-boot my laptop) and Ubuntu immediately recognized it and prompted to copy the pictures off of the camera. Overall I’m very impressed with Win7, but I run into situations now and again where Windows just fails at something and yet Ubuntu succeeds. It’s one of the reasons why I use them both.
I have some questions
1. does this tool provide incremental way of pictures ?
2. will this tool will also copy videos from camera ?