Post by ScoutB on Aug 28, 2011 22:34:17 GMT -5
My wife takes a million pictures at every event we attend, including my daughter's wedding last night. Never mind that we paid hundreds of dollars for a professional photographer, my wife still managed to take 150 photos herself. My mother in law took another 61.
When the camera was new I was able to set it up to be totally idiot proof. Plug it into the computer and it would automatically create a new folder, transfer the photos into it, and delete the files from the memory card. It was perfect. Then we upgraded the computer to Wndows 7 and it all turned to $hit because there's no Win7 driver for the camera. I tried teaching my wife to plug the memory card into the computer and transfer the files but she never gets it right. I've found hundreds of photos on the desktop before when she accepted the default location. My favorite is when she copies the files to the computer and doesn't wipe the card. Back in the camera it goes, and next time the same photos plus a few new ones get copied again, over and over until there are 10 copies of the same photo on the computer. Now, to keep things reasonably under control, I do the transfer myself.
Every photo ever taken by any camera in my house is still on the hard drive. The blurry ones, the dark ones, the misfires showing the tops of her shoes, the short videos that were supposed to be photos. You get the idea. Probably less than 25% of the photos are anything you'd ever want to see again. I had to buy a 500GB external hard drive just to back up this pile of mostly worthless and redundant files.
So, now the photos are on the computer and she needs to see them. I use a Google program called Picasa as the viewer. This presents it's own set of misunderstandings. When you open Picasa it spends a couple of minutes searching for new files. In this few minutes my wife convinces herself that I somehow screwed up and didn't transfer the files properly. Also, no matter how hard I try to explain that Picasa is just a viewer, she thinks I need to copy the files into that program.
The purpose of all these photos, of course, is to put them on her facebook. Every time, it's "how do I put these on Facebook". Yippee, more for me to do.
I had a new one today. I transfered the photos from my mother-in-law's camera too in a folder called "Mom's wedding photos". I watched as Picassa found them in a scan but couldn't find the folder on the folder list. Picassa sorts chronologically, so I finally had to ask if she had set the time and date on her camera. The blank look said it all - she had no idea she could do that. I finally found the folder in with the rest of them from 2008. Where else would you look?
People should not be allowed to purchase any technology until they are trained. If they can't be trained, they can't have it. I could write the "Digital photos for dummies" manual myself from cleaning up all the messes but nobody would read it anyway. Especially my wife when she knows she can dump all of the transfer, organization, cleanup, and backup off on me.
When the camera was new I was able to set it up to be totally idiot proof. Plug it into the computer and it would automatically create a new folder, transfer the photos into it, and delete the files from the memory card. It was perfect. Then we upgraded the computer to Wndows 7 and it all turned to $hit because there's no Win7 driver for the camera. I tried teaching my wife to plug the memory card into the computer and transfer the files but she never gets it right. I've found hundreds of photos on the desktop before when she accepted the default location. My favorite is when she copies the files to the computer and doesn't wipe the card. Back in the camera it goes, and next time the same photos plus a few new ones get copied again, over and over until there are 10 copies of the same photo on the computer. Now, to keep things reasonably under control, I do the transfer myself.
Every photo ever taken by any camera in my house is still on the hard drive. The blurry ones, the dark ones, the misfires showing the tops of her shoes, the short videos that were supposed to be photos. You get the idea. Probably less than 25% of the photos are anything you'd ever want to see again. I had to buy a 500GB external hard drive just to back up this pile of mostly worthless and redundant files.
So, now the photos are on the computer and she needs to see them. I use a Google program called Picasa as the viewer. This presents it's own set of misunderstandings. When you open Picasa it spends a couple of minutes searching for new files. In this few minutes my wife convinces herself that I somehow screwed up and didn't transfer the files properly. Also, no matter how hard I try to explain that Picasa is just a viewer, she thinks I need to copy the files into that program.
The purpose of all these photos, of course, is to put them on her facebook. Every time, it's "how do I put these on Facebook". Yippee, more for me to do.
I had a new one today. I transfered the photos from my mother-in-law's camera too in a folder called "Mom's wedding photos". I watched as Picassa found them in a scan but couldn't find the folder on the folder list. Picassa sorts chronologically, so I finally had to ask if she had set the time and date on her camera. The blank look said it all - she had no idea she could do that. I finally found the folder in with the rest of them from 2008. Where else would you look?
People should not be allowed to purchase any technology until they are trained. If they can't be trained, they can't have it. I could write the "Digital photos for dummies" manual myself from cleaning up all the messes but nobody would read it anyway. Especially my wife when she knows she can dump all of the transfer, organization, cleanup, and backup off on me.
But at least I know she'll never leave me 'cuz she'll never figure out how to see her photos again.
Making Christmas cards was THE WORST! Wouldn't have been as bad as it was if proper staffing was there, but that doesn't happen with the Chinamart corporation.