Author Topic: Please help me with this frikking digital camera.. (Read 361 times)

Wobble · « **on:** October 24, 2001, 05:44:00 PM »

ok, my Uncle gave me his Olympus D-360L Digital camera and 2 smartmedia cards one is 8mb the other is 32, they were working just fine untill I accidentley messed thie file system up, now I get 'card error' when I put them it.. I know all I need to do is format them but I dont haven any of the orignal software than came with the camera... Im using a lexar 'digital film reader' (USB) to read the cards and Adobe photoshop to do all the imaging stuff...

I have a drive labled 'removable disk' in MY COMPUTER, but when I select the 'format' option the only options are NTFS, FAT, and FAT32.. I know the smart cards dont use any of those.

Ideally i would like the Camedia software than came with the camera, but i can find it ANYWHERE.. but nw ill just settle for any app, driver, util.. ANYTHING that will let me format these fricking cards..

thanks for any help.

Kieran · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2001, 05:47:00 PM »

Yes, the camera does use one of those file formats. You should be fine with FAT or FAT32.

Wobble · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2001, 05:59:00 PM »

hmm, interesting... when i try to format it it says it does and then its says it couldent format it..

ADDED:

oh, well I called Olympus and talled to a tech help guy and he said that since I deleted the pictures IN the computer insted of in the camera that I had fragmented the data on the card, and that I COULDENT format the card with the camera.. He said I could probably do it with the camedia software, when I asked where to get it he said it comes with the camera.. but I couldent DL it from anywhere, and If I wanted to buy it, it costs $25.

but, needless to say i found a site that has the aoftware, som Im DLing it now..

[ 10-24-2001: Message edited by: Wobble ]

Kieran · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2001, 06:59:00 PM »

I have a Sony DSC S30, and I can format the disks like any other disks from "My Computer". Great little camera for the money, I might add.

SOB · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2001, 12:21:00 AM »

Weird. I've got a coolpix that uses CF cards. Never had a problem, and I delete stuff off of the card from my computer all the time. Hell, I once used it to transport a file with me when I flew home to Wisconsin and then formatted it with the camera after transferring the file to the folks' computer.

ummm...was there a point I was driving at here? Nah, I guess I'm just babbling, but it was a good story for the price you payed.

SOB

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-lynx- · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2001, 08:00:00 AM »

Had the same problems with friend's Olympus. The file system on CFs is FAT no matter what any dolp in support says. We used a CF reader and deleted a few pics with the camera subsequently refusing to read the card. All I had to do was to re-format the card using FAT and it was "back" as good as new.

My Casio 3030 uses CF2s so I'm using IBM's 340MB MicroDrive (245 uncompressed images at 2096x1536 res

). I've formatted it several times, deleted files via File Explorer (camera attached via USB) - basically treated it as a removable harddisk it actually is - no probs.

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