technical difficulties.

[kaydeefalls]

This is kind of silly. So I own two digital cameras, neither particularly new or shiny. The older one had been getting on, so a couple of years ago when I won the newer one in a raffle (these things do occasionally happen, it seems) I gave the older one to Dave, who had none. He got his own newer and much better camera as a graduation gift, so he returned old!camera to me. I figured I'd probably never use it again, but hey, always nice to have a backup.

Now, I haven't used raffle!camera in a while, because I don't take pictures often, but it was a good little camera. One thing, though, is that it always seemed to eat through batteries far faster than it had any right to, which meant that half the times I thought of something to take a picture of, I'd be lacking in batteries that weren't already dead. So yesterday I went out and bought a nice full pack of batteries, so I could get in my photospam without interruption.

Even with NEW batteries, raffle!camera will now only turn on for about two seconds before dying.

And old!camera, which should have been retired long ago, still works, but apparently when Dave returned it he forgot to return the cable that connected it to my laptop to upload pictures, and raffle!camera, being of a newer model and different brand, has a cable that won't connect to the corresponding old!camera port.

So I have two digital cameras. One will connect to the laptop but won't take pictures, and the other will take pictures but won't connect to the laptop.

I hate technology sometimes.

Comments

[ladybella.livejournal.com]

I think in this situation you'd either have to get a replacement cable for the camera, or a card reader for your laptop. No cable necessary, just take the card out and plug it in.

But yes, I'm having the same problem - my mom's camera is so bulky but it takes great pics and records video with sound, and my own camera is small with massive megapixel, but eats and craps batteries and hates my face. It's a lovely world of technology we live in!

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Stupid technology. I think this is the point where I just ask my parents for a new one for Christmas or something. It's been five years since the last one, I guess it could be time.

[azazelea.livejournal.com]

Have you tried lithium batteries? Also... if they happen to have the same kind of memory card, you could put the one from the older camera into the new one, and hook that up to the computer...

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

The new one won't turn on enough to function even when plugged in, alas.

[jptiger.livejournal.com]

Those cords are often pretty standard today; USB cords typically come in two flavors: big (6 pin-- printers, scanners, etc), and small (4-pin, mp3 players, cameras, etc). There are oddball ones, but chances are the cord you have for something else just might work for the camera you're missing a cable for.

...that being said, the one oddball cord I have that doesn't match the others I've seen is the one I have for my four-year-old digital camera.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't have anything else that works at the moment. Alas.