How do I save a jpeg image back to my Olympus D-500L? Thank-You.

-- Graeme Palfreyman (bigcolour@uniserve.com), March 12, 2000

Answers

The short answer is you probably don't. There are a zillion ways the fine details of the JPEG algorithm can be set up, and most cameras will only handle the very specific settings they use. One possibility, it might work: Try saving an absolute minimum-quality JPEG from Photoshop or whatever. That may have things dumbed-down enough that the camera's processor can understand it. If that works, try a little better quality, then a bit better again, etc, etc. Slim chance, but it might work.

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), March 15, 2000.

Not having an Olympus, I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but perhaps a similar approach will work for you. I have a Toshiba PDR-M1 and Lexar Digital Film Reader that connects via parallel port. I recently noticed something in the manual concerning file names that said the PDR-M1 will play back recorded images with filenames of the same format that the camera uses when saving images. In my case AAAAXXXX.JPG of Exif-JPEG format with filesizes up to the res. of the camera, where A is an alphabetic, and X a numeric character. I tried transferring images back onto a smartmedia card with the reader and it works! So far it seems likely that it would only work with images taken and compressed by the camera. I'm doubtful that edited and recompressed images would display properly, but haven't checked on it yet.

Perhaps if you used unedited images from the camera, saved in the original format, with the original filenames and placed into the proper directory on the smartmedia card it would work for you as it did on my camera. No guarantees, but good luck!

It'd be nice if manufacturers would include this capability in their serial port transfer programs, but I think most intend users to upgrade to a faster transfer medium if they're looking for advanced features like being able to transfer images back to the camera.

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@francomm.com), March 15, 2000.