USING THE CAMERA WITH A COMPUTER

What you can do

Connecting the camera to a computer with the bundled USB cable provides you with the capabilities described below.

You can transfer images stored on your computer to camera memory.

You can even transfer images that were

Transfer

not originally recorded with the camera.

images to the

 

You can use your computer to view camera

 

images and for long-term storage of images.

View and

With some versions of Windows you need

to install the USB driver that comes

store images*

 

camera

You can capture (cut) a portion of the image (web page, map, etc.) currently on your computer screen and transfer it to camera memory.

 

bundled with the camera.

 

Installation of a USB driver is not required

 

for the Apple Macintosh.

 

 

 

You can use the software that comes

 

bundled with the camera to perform various

Manage, edit, operations with the images stored on your

and print

computer’s hard disk.

images

Refer to the explanations later in this

 

section and install the required software on

 

your computers.

Transfer

You can transfer documents from your

documents to computer to camera memory. the camera

*You can also transfer images to a computer for viewing and storage without connecting the camera, by removing the memory card from the camera and reading the contents of the card with your computer (page 249).

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