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Digital cameras and public access computers
11:23 AM EST 11/10/08
My apologies if you are already familiar with this, but it has been coming up with increasing frequency here. A patron will come in with their digital camera and want to upload pictures to a website (e.g., MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, an email account, etc.). Most current cameras have a setting that must be adjusted manually to use the camera like a USB drive. For us, this is the only way the camera will work with our public access computers. Of course, for each camera, the method to do this is slightly different with slightly different wording, but can usually be found by working through the camera's settings menu. And, unfortunately, some cameras (usually older ones) do not have this capability (they are expecting you to install software to use the camera which will not work on our setup).
RE: Digital cameras and public access computers
3:46 PM EDT 5/4/09 as a reply to Ross Riker.
Have you tried using universal card reader/writer? Don't have to mess with any software - especially all the unique cameras people bring in.

I bought a Universal 32 in 1 card reader for under 13 dollars at Wal-Mart. Easier to use than a flash drive.

Solves a lot of problems.

Rebecca