Posted by John Mycroft on 12/19/05 15:55

"Confusing" is right! Doesn't help that the manual doesn't distinguish
between "Pictures" (except when it mentions "Moving pictures") and "Images"
(which it doesn't refer to as "moving images" so it seems reasonable to
think that it means "still pictures").

So now I have a short shopping list which I hope my credit card can
tolerate - 1 x Firewire card for desktop machine, 1 Firewire cable for
camera to desktop machine, 1 x Firewire cable for camera to laptop
(different type of socket on the laptop (wonder if I can get a card with a
small socket? Grrr!) and some image transfer software. Might give the MS
stuff with Pinnacle Studio 10 a crack.


<davesvideo@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1134961955.234268.133650@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> John Mycroft wrote:
>
>> Circuit City here I come for a firewire card & cable. I'm still left
>> wondering why Sony provide USB software that doesn't work but it's a
>> mystery
>> I can live without solving.
>
> The earlier Digital camcorders all had firewire and no USB. There were
> also digital still cameras that came with memory sticks and USB ports
> for loading pictures to the computer. Then someone decided that people
> might want camcorders that could also take still pictures and began
> adding USB ports as well as firewire. The last Digital camcorder that I
> bought was this kind and came with a USB cable (no firewire cable and
> no memory stick). I do not care about that function and so have never
> bought the memory stick, nor did I ever bother to load the software
> disk. When I want digital stills, I use a digital still camera. I can
> see how it could be confusing.
>
> Dave
>

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