topic Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85 in PCs & Accessories

CANON POWERSHOT A85

scaramanga — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:53:11 GMT

Hi!
Does anyone know why I cannot download directly from my canon A85 to the VP. Please don't tell me they are not compatible!
Cheers

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

DiabloVaio — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:25:41 GMT

Is your camera a MASS STORAGE DEVICE? If not, don't even think about connecting your camera directly to VP!
If your camera is a MASS STORAGE DEVICE, then turn it off, turn your VP off, connect the USB cables correctly, then turn your VP on, then turn your camera on, then go to Photo Storage option, and wait. If you see an error, that means your camera is not compatible with VP!
However, some cameras' settings need to be changed before using with VP, which I don't have any information about.

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

scaramanga — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:44:20 GMT

Sorry for the dumb question but how do I find out if my camera is a Mass storage device? i looked in the manual and there is no mention about mass storage device?

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

DiabloVaio — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:53:33 GMT

Connect it to your computer, if it comes up as an external drive, the it's a MASS STORAGE DEVICE !

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

MadarbWoT — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:40:10 GMT

i dont mean to frighten you but some cameras especially not sony made are not at all compatible with the vp as they dont share any software connections or dont have any.
therefore you need to check if your camera can be recognized by trying really hard and changing every little thing that could affect this to see if it is really compatible or not.

sorry for being pesimistic...

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

scaramanga — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:13:40 GMT

I have tried every single setting and although my computer recognise the camera as canon powershot it does not recognise it as an external drive i.e. like VP. I am alreadynprepared for the worst. It's a bummer anyway!
Cheers everyone for your help

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

seb21__ — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:20:17 GMT

Can you change the USB-mode on you Powershot?

There are three differents on my Cybershot.

Normal, PTP and PictBridge. I think you must use the normal-mode, if you can change this.

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

scaramanga — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:35:19 GMT

I have looked everywhere in the camera set up but nothing about changing or modifing USB cable.....I think I have to give in

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

DiabloVaio — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:59:39 GMT

I have a FjiFilm Finepix F610, It's not a very new version, but it works great with VP.
I found this for you :
Simplified Printing and Uploading

The PowerShot A85 features Canon's Print/Share button for single step printing and file sharing. When the camera is connected via USB cable to any PictBridge or Direct Print compatible photo printer or Windows PC, a blue light on the Print/Share button comes on to indicate successful connection. Pushing the button when lit instigates a print of the currently displayed image (based on the connected printer's default settings) or an automatic transfer of images to the PC . The camera transfers all images, all images not yet transferred, or all images marked for transfer, depending on the user setting selected in the Camera's set up options.

Be hopeful my friend!
Do you turn your camera on when you connect it to VP?
One more thing, use your camera's own USB cable to connect it to VP cradle.

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

scaramanga — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:01:46 GMT

But of course...the camera was switched off!!:smileywink:

Thanks for the tip but still the VP gives the message:
Error Camera not detected. Check the power and the connection of the camera

..and yes I use the USB of my camera.

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

DiabloVaio — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:07:12 GMT

Pushing the button when lit instigates a print of the currently displayed image (based on the connected printer's default settings) or an automatic transfer of images to the PC

Do you have this button? was it turned on when you connected your camera to your VP? Did you push it?

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

GlenCraib — Thu, 12 May 2005 18:56:11 GMT

if you are trying to download pictures to you vaio pocket then sadly it is the wrong camera as you need to use a sony siber shot

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

M16025 — Sat, 14 May 2005 16:00:55 GMT

I use a card reader like the one here:

http://www.dane-elec.fr/scripts/home/publigen/content/templates/TPL_ADV_INFO_C2_S2.asp?P=243&L=EN

No problem with any kind of mem card.
VP transfers everything from any card.

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

scaramanga — Mon, 16 May 2005 10:15:54 GMT

The idea was to transfer directly from my camera to the VP hence using my VP as hard drive to store picture when my camera card is full. I.e when I am on holiday1
sadly I came to the conclusions that VP does not support Powershot A85

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

M16025 — Mon, 16 May 2005 11:17:31 GMT

As I said...I use a card reader to transfer the pictures from my cameras (and from my friends cameras) to the VP.
There is no need to have the camera turned on during the imense time it takes to transfer the pictures, and any card (and any type of file in the card) is transferd to the VP without any kind of problem. If there is a problem removing the mem card from the camera....that is another problem.

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

scaramanga — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:02:10 GMT

I undestand how is done!! Thanks for the tip, by the way which one would you reccommend? Any ideas?

Re: CANON POWERSHOT A85

M16025 — Thu, 19 May 2005 19:07:51 GMT

I have 2 card readers. One has a 128Mb memory and because of that it doesn´t work with the VP. I have another card reader that is just that, a card reader/writer, and i have no problem at all.