G3 needs Firewire?

[picture dude]

I purchased a S2 and love it so far. Tried to connect directly using my G3 Lombard Notebook and the camera using a IBM 1394 Firewire pcmcia card. Then tried to start the Fuji download software and I gat "camera not connected". I've checked to see that the settings are correct on the s2. Is there a special card I need? I am using 9.1 os and that shows it's compatible. Just can't figure what I'm doing wrong???

Gary

[NIKKOR]

Dude
Did you set the camera to IEEE1394 download through the menu options ???
Don

[picture dude]

yep, I set it on the "download 1394" & the other 1394 setting. Nothing works...

Keeps saying "camera not connected"

Gary

[NIKKOR]

Does the Laptop see the IBM Firewire card???
Have you tried another cable??
Can you try this on another computer at home or work ????
Try turning off any anti virus software.....

[picture dude]

My Mac does see the 1394 card because it pops up on the desktop.

I tried the other port and both were the same.
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I don't have another laptop to try it on?

I'm wondering if the mac takes a special firewire card??

Gary

[NIKKOR]

Gary
i Link is a Sony Trademark
Firewire is an Apple trademark
IEEE1394 is the Universal Group Standard for this technology

All 3 are the same thing with different names. All cables and software codes are the same.

Just a thought .... Do you turn on the camera first --THEN-- start up the shooting software ??

Firewire connection is for shooting or downloading (Shooting software only controls the camera and is Firewire)

USB connectin only allows downloading of pictures to the computer

Does your USB port work ???

Don

[picture dude]

WOW.... Turning the camera off worked???

So now I got it to send pictures to the "Camera Shooting Software" and I can get many pictures into the software, but when I go to save I get an "Out of Memory" error. I've alloted 450000 megs of mem, but still get the error. It's a Mac.

Any idea why I'm getting the error.????

Gary

[NIKKOR]

Gary
Congrats --- at least you now have it seeing the camera and you can control the camera from the computer...

"Out of memory !!!!!!!" I don't know -- I use PC
Maybe post a message on the Mac software forum on this site.
Seems to me that Mac's handle memory very different than a PC
Good Luck
Don

[NIKKOR]

Gary
Try shooting just ONE picture and see if you can save that (clear out all of the old shots first) ...maybe you are trying to "save" too many at one time.
Don

[kari]

hi Gary!

are you trying to shoot with your apple, if so then you'll need to check your manual, it says:


Macintosh Computers Model: Power Macintosh G3, Power Macintosh G4, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4 or iBook with an IEEE1394 (FireWire) interface as a standard feature
Hard disk: Min. 1 GB available space
RAM: 256 MB (512 MB or better recommended)
Operating system: Mac OS 9.1 to 9.2
IEEE1394 cable: IEEE1394 cable bundled with the camera
CD-ROM drive: Required for software installation

This software is not guaranteed to run when used via an IEEE 1394 (FireWire) hub or with an added IEEE 1394 port.

Allocate at least 400 MB of virtual memory for RAW FILE CONVERTER. If other applications are to be used with RAW FILE CONVERTER, allocate sufficient memory capacity for the other applications also.
This software does not run correctly in the Mac OS X Classic environment.

ok, lot to read, but major thing is in there that if you run raw-converter you'll need atleast 500 mb free memory, there is nothing about shooting soft but i believe that you'll need that over 500 mb, so turn your virtual memory on and set virtual atleast to 550 because your system will need memory too. virtual memory will take place from your hard disk that's all. so if you have only small free area on your disk you'll need to expand it by deleting files.....

hope it will help

kari

[picture dude]

Kari,

Thanks for your reply....

I needed more memory. I have 512 Mem, so I turned on my Virtual Mem and got it to work...

Thanks,

Gary