My sister sent us a compact picture viewer, with a memory card that has some old photos loaded on it. How do you do this? We don’t have a digital camera or a card reader; what apparatus is necessary to load old pix onto Memory Cards?
A card reader. You’ll have to buy one.
Are you saying your sister sent you a digital photo frame that came with a card that had some old, previously non-digital photos loaded on the card that you could view on the digital photo frame?
Are you asking how to take some of your own old, non-digital photos and put them on to a card that can be read by a digital photo frame and/or distributed to other people in digital format?
If your talking about taking still pictures that were taken with a celluloid camera( 35mm film) then step one would be to get the photos you want from storage( shoe boxes), book albums and use a scanner to digitize them and load them onto a computer. The next step is to simply move them from the computer to the memory card. The card reader/ writer is usally about ten dollars or less depending on where you get it.
IF a scanner is not available , most photography places that develop film or transfer digital images to still photos ,will for a fee do this for you and give you a CD rom along with your originals when the process is finished.
Declan
The name which seems to be catching on around here is “Digital Picture Frame” if you are referring to a “picture viewer” that displays digital photos onto an LCD panel. Is that correct?
Digital Picture Frames have three possible sources of images: An internal memory, a memory card and a live connection to another computer.
If it’s a newer model it may have an internal memory and it will probably have a card slot. It may also have a USB port to connect to a computer.
If there is an internal memory, there will be a way to connect the Picture Frame to a computer, which should see the internal memory they way it sees any flash drive (such as the little thumb drives you stick in a USB port).
Post back with some details about what kind of display device you are talking about and we can get more specific.
In general, most picture frames can at least read jpeg images off a memory card. All you need to do is put the images on the memory card, put the card in the Digital Picture Frame, and use the functions of the Picture Frame to display the images off the card. Anything that will access the card, from a digital camera to the Picture Frame (if it has a computer connection) to a plain card reader will do for simple transfer of plain jpegs.
I should note that the size of the image file will make a huge difference in how many images you can squeeze onto the card. Most Digital Picture Frames are not going to display anything in more detail than 1024x768 so there’s no point in putting some huge image file from a 7 Megapixel camera onto the card. There are a number of ways to reduce the image file size. The last Digital Picture Frame I bought came with software to do this, but there are lots of other programs to do that.