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limehand - 30 Jan 2007 19:05 GMT

Im on a budget and have a Mac 7600 with USB PCI card Most cameras now
need Mac OSX or higher
I dont need anything too fancy just a decent image to email and print
out to 4x6 JPEG only would be OK I was looking atthe Olympus SP-350
but its OSX only

An older camera might work with lower MP but which one?
Any other OS9 duffers out there with some advice?

thanks...

Michae

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Daniel Silevitch - 30 Jan 2007 19:11 GMT

> Im on a budget and have a Mac 7600 with USB PCI card Most cameras now
> need Mac OSX or higher
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> An older camera might work with lower MP but which one?
> Any other OS9 duffers out there with some advice?

Find a USB card reader that works under OS9 (I remember using a USB CF
reader on an OS9 machine, so I know that they exist; I don't know
whether a new reader would work or whether you would need OS9 drivers),
and then you can use whatever camera you want.

-dms

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C J Campbell - 30 Jan 2007 20:12 GMT

> Im on a budget and have a Mac 7600 with USB PCI card Most cameras now
> need Mac OSX or higher
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>
> Michae

Almost all cameras will work with OS9 as long as you are not shooting RAW
files. Ignore the software that comes with the camera; use a memory card
reader instead.

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Mark² - 30 Jan 2007 20:52 GMT

> Im on a budget and have a Mac 7600 with USB PCI card Most cameras now
> need Mac OSX or higher
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>
> Michae

That's just for connecting the camera tothe computer (which I never do).
Get yourself a card reader, and it's basically a mute distinction.

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C J Campbell - 31 Jan 2007 18:04 GMT

>> Im on a budget and have a Mac 7600 with USB PCI card Most cameras now
>> need Mac OSX or higher
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> That's just for connecting the camera tothe computer (which I never do).
> Get yourself a card reader, and it's basically a mute distinction.

Until you start trying to use a camera with RAW files. Not many OS9 RAW file
readers out there.

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Mark² - 31 Jan 2007 19:40 GMT

>>> Im on a budget and have a Mac 7600 with USB PCI card Most cameras
>>> now need Mac OSX or higher
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> Until you start trying to use a camera with RAW files. Not many OS9
> RAW file readers out there.

??
RAW conversion is software based. Are you saying that the RAW conversion
program won't run on OS9?
Wow.

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C J Campbell - 31 Jan 2007 23:01 GMT

>>>> Im on a budget and have a Mac 7600 with USB PCI card Most cameras
>>>> now need Mac OSX or higher
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> program won't run on OS9?
> Wow.

Most won't. OS-9 predates wide use of most of the latest RAW formats. I don't
believe the latest Adobe RAW converters run on OS-9, for example. Sure, if
you have an older camera and Photoshop for OS-9, then why not? But I would
genuinely like to see how anyone would use OS-9 to view Nikon D80 RAW files.

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