Forgive me if this question has been posted before. I'm considering buying a Olympus 450 but I'll need a large smart media card to store many pictures before I can downlaod them to my Mac. Is this camera and smart media somehow compatible with a smart media floppy disk and how does that work? Does the camera's image disk fit into a floppy size disk? Is that just inserted into the computer and downloaded from there? I already have Twain installed because of my scanner. Any info which could clear up my confusion would be appreciated. Thanks. Jack

-- Jack Weibel (woodboat@buffalo.com), November 28, 1999

Answers

ok, first off, I don't have this camera or the floppy drive adapter. However, I believe you answered your own questions. The smartmedia card fits into the adapter, and then you transfer the pictures off your floppy drive. From what I here, it is about as slow as using a serial cable, so you might look into a card reader instead. Either one that works off the parallel port, or one that works thru a USB port. USB being the ideal.

I think similiar questions have been posted before, you might want to do a search.

-- David Erskine (davide@netquest.com), November 28, 1999.

Jack

I have owned the D400z and Flashpath floppy adapter for about a year. You insert the Smartmedia card into the adapter, put the adapter into youre A: drive, then you can copy of move your pictures to your hard drive. It takes about 7 to 8 minutes to download a 32 meg. card. Its not the fastest method, but I find it the most convenient. One nice feature is you can put the Flashpath software on a floppy and install it on any PC then use the adapter.

Tom

-- Tom Colsher (tjc74@prodigy.net), November 29, 1999.