using 2 cameras

[dolores]

ok.got my lovely nikon D50 but would still like to use my coolpix 990 sometimes.when installing the d50 it said to uninstall nikon view which i used to download photos from my coolpix.
i have had 2 very frustrating calls to nikon with stupid suggestions.basically they didnt no.
i would have thought this was quite a common problem.
apparently it is not advised to run both softwares but my coolpix wont work with the picture project
If anyone has any helpful ideas i would appreciate them
thanks

[Leo S]

No need for the software Dolores...

Find yourself an appropriate card reader(7dayshop.com have some cheap ones which have worked well for me) , attach it via a USB cable to your PC, and you can then access the photos on your card via your desktop/copy them over from your card to your PC HDD.

Leo

[dolores]

thanks leo,its taken me days to get an answer.u should get a job at nikon ! their support is rubbish.
No need for the software Dolores...

Find yourself an appropriate card reader(7dayshop.com have some cheap ones which have worked well for me) , attach it via a USB cable to your PC, and you can then access the photos on your card via your desktop/copy them over from your card to your PC HDD.

Leo

[Neil]

I don't use Nikonview to download . I switch it off and just go into the camera drive and Copy and Paste to a new folder. Neil.

[Tannin]

Yup. Leo's advice is spot on. broadly, the software you get from camera makers is just junk, designed for know-nothing people by know-not-very-much programmers.

Hey - what do you expect? If you want a great camera, buy it from a great camera manufacturer (like Nikon). If you want great software, buy it from a great software manufacturer. Would you buy fish from the plumber? A computer from the fish shop?

There is some fantastically good image manipulation software out there, but it's very rare indeed to see any of it bundled with a camera. As Leo says, using a flash card reader and the software of your own choice is by far the best.

[Leo S]

thanks leo,its taken me days to get an answer.u should get a job at nikon ! their support is rubbish.

My pleasure dolores:)

Neil suggested a good alternative also... if you need to get to your photos in a hurry and don't have a card reader, but I would still recommend getting one, although they are by no means essential.

Effectively your camera is a reader, and if you look in "My computer" you should see it listed there along with all your other drives, when it's connected to the PC.

Leo

[DOC]

I don't use Nikonview - just like Neil said : i just copy \ paste to a new folder .
To my opinion - much easier and faster . ( and i shoot like 30-40,000 pics a year - not much - but a reasonable amount...).

[Keith Reeder]

Nikon View is useful if you're shooting NEF and are using a pre XP version of Windows, so that you can see them all as thumbnails (Win 95/98/Me don't recognise NEF files natively), but aside from that it's not really needed.

I use it, but that's just because I still use Win Me and without NV I'd have to open every NEF image in turn to see what it looks like.

[dolores]

Thanks guys. Iam in two minds to sell my coolpix 990 after getting great shots with my d50 will i ever wa :h?: nt to use it.i will miss getting the extra zoom but then the photos never come out that great. what to do ?

Nikon View is useful if you're shooting NEF and are using a pre XP version of Windows, so that you can see them all as thumbnails (Win 95/98/Me don't recognise NEF files natively), but aside from that it's not really needed.

I use it, but that's just because I still use Win Me and without NV I'd have to open every NEF image in turn to see what it looks like.