I’m speaking of the little slot where a person can fit his digital camera media to upload pictures onto his computer. Can files be written to these memory sticks from the computer? Can someone copy some pictures to the memory stick and then take it to another camera or even straight to another computer and upload the pictures there?
Or is it a READ ONLY drive?
Could a person take some pictures, upload them onto his computer, photoshop them, and then save over the pictures on that memory stick.
So then the person could put the stick back into his camera and, using the small LCD display, show off some fake photoshops and pawn them off as legitimate pictures that he took with his camera?
Or even simpler than that. Could he just download some Mars rover pics, save them to memory stick and then put that stick in his camera. And then hand over his camera to someone to “show off” the pictures he took last week on his Marsian vacation?
There are definately read-write. Place the card in your card reader and the computer treats it like an additional drive. You can copy anything you want to it. More than likely you camera won’t be able to read it.
If you plug your camera into the computer and then transfer images to the camera you might be able to see them on the camera, with more success but don’t count on it either.
It’s possible to display them on your camera if you get the exact format and header information correct. Otherwise the camera won’t recognize them and you’ll get a card error. But it’s common to use memory cards (Memory Stick refers to Sony’s proprietary format) to transfer data.
In order to display them on your camera you’ll probably want a utility that knows exactly the file format and header info that your camera uses. I don’t know of such a utility, but I bet they are out there.
I use my camera all the time to save Word files and PowerPoint files to take back and forth to work. I just plug it into the USB port on my computer and there it is…Drive E:
On my Sony camera, I can save images to the Memory Stick from the computer, but in order for them to be recognized so they show up on the camera’s LCD screen they need to follow a certain naming convention (something like CNV12000.JPG). If you can figure this out then you can easily show off your Nessie sightings.
Yes, but you need to make sure you save the images into the correct directory on the card. I can’t remember exactly what it’s called, but it’s easy enough to check. Something like DCIM -> OLYMP1000 on my last camera (now dead) I think. I believe you do need to use the correct naming format, but I can’t remember if that is definitely true. The format my camera used was Pmddxxxx, where m was the month (1-9 then A, B, C for Oct, Nov Dec), dd was the day, and xxxx was the image serial number.
E.g. PB122141 was taken on November 12 and was the 2141th picture I took with the camera.
Even if you get the naming convention right, there’s no guarentee that the image will display properly. But give it a shot, you might be amused with the results. But I’d make sure that you save off all the images on the card first, you may have to reformat after the experiment.
My camera supports the standard cable transfer, and my computer has a port for a Secure Digital card. All I have to do is take the card out of the camera and put it in my PC’s slot. I’m able to rapidly upload hundreds of pictures that way.
When I travel to visit relatives abroad it’s usually difficult to bring a computer. I can hook my camera to their TVs and give them a nice slide show.
With regard to the PhotoShop snapshot fraud you mentioned, I believe it’s entirely possible. Next time I’m in South Dakota I may just be able to cough up some cool Yeti pictures.