I know how to put the QV3000 in TIFF mode, but I cannot figure out how to get the images transferred to my PC! Photoloader doesn't seem to recognize that they're even there nor does the camera itself in Playback mode! It appears the camera is writing the images to the Micro Drive, but I can't find them from there!! Any tips would be greatly appreciated..

Please reply via email... Thanks!!

Barry (bkushin@pacbell.net)

-- Barry Kushin (bkushin@pacbell.net), July 02, 2000

Answers

Barry- You find them in the "TIFF" directory on the micro-drive.

While connected to your PC via USB cable, open Windows Explorer and the Casio will appear as a removeable drive (probably drive D, E, or F, depending on the number of CDroms, CDRs, etc you have in your system). Clicking on the Casio drive, you will see the entire micro-drive's directory structure. Look in the "TIFF" directory.

SteveK

-- Steve K (stevie.k@rcn.com), July 03, 2000.

Steve: Thanks for the reply - this works great. Now my problem is I can't seem to open/read these files with any program I have (PhotoDeluxe, PhotoSuite). I have Photoshop on my Mac, but haven't had a chance to try that yet. Any suggestions?? I did read that these files were a non-standard TIFF format - true? If so, any way to convert them or any suggestions on applications to view/edit them??

Thanks again,

Barry

-- Barry Kushin (bkushin@pacbell.net), July 03, 2000.

A freeware program called "Ifirfanview" (http://softwarecenter.net/irfanview/) will aloow you to read the file and display it and then all you have to do is resave it and then any software program will be able to read the resaved tiff.

-- Monroe (monroemn@erols.com), July 05, 2000.

THANKS to all for your replies - I think I've got this figured out. BTW, DeBabelizerLE (which I got free on CD with DigitalFOTO mag.) will also open these files. After saving them from there, they're readable by anything...

Barry

-- Barry Kushin (bkushin@pacbell.net), July 05, 2000.

This isn't an answer but a question as to how Barry gets the QV300 into TIFF mode. I've had my QV 3000 for a couple of months and haven't been able to find a reference in the manual. Your answer would be much appreciated.

Fredric Gaspard

-- Frederic Gaspard (fgaspard@gaspard.ca), July 08, 2000.

Frederic, No secret really, it's actually an undocumented feature. I accidently discovered it while reading a review here on imaging- resource.com (the entire review can be found at: http://www.imaging- resource.com/PRODS/Q3K/Q3KA.HTM). Here's a couple of excerpts outlining this & also how to get into full manual mode:

An interesting feature here is the hidden full manual control option: If you hit the Set button and the left arrow button simultaneously while in Shutter Priority mode, you are put into a full manual mode that lets you control both aperture (the left and right arrow buttons) and shutter speed (the up and down arrows). There's also a hidden mode to give you very long timed exposures and a "bulb" exposure capability. (This last means the shutter opens when you first press the shutter button, and doesn't close until you press the shutter button again, or after 60 seconds, whichever comes first.) You can access the long-exposure feature from shutter-priority mode by going to the longest standard exposure (2 seconds), and then pressing the Set and down-arrow buttons simultaneously. The camera will remain in this mode until a different exposure mode is selected, or the power is cycled. (Interestingly, it will retain a long exposure setting even through a power on/off cycle, but will exit the long-exposure mode as soon as you increase the shutter speed above 2 seconds.) We literally stumbled across the manual-exposure and long- exposure functions on the QV-2000UX and are glad to see them repeated with this camera. (Although a Casio rep cautioned against taking multiple very long time-exposures in rapid sequence, as it can overheat the CCD itself, producing unusual amounts of image noise, and possibly damaging the chip. (!) - We'd say that you should definitely exercise caution when taking exposures longer than several seconds!)

The QV-3000 does support an uncompressed TIFF file format, but it appears to be in the native CCD format, and so is of relatively limited use. (No use?) We weren't able to open the uncompressed files from the camera in any imaging application we tried. (But here's a link to a file, in case you want to experiment yourself. Be warned that it's a 6+ megabyte download though!) To access the uncompressed TIFF mode on the camera, press the Set and Flash buttons simultaneously in any capture mode. The only way we could find to turn off this feature was to cycle the camera's power.

Hope this helps - have fun!

Barry

P.S.: Per the thread in the forum on this, you will need DeBabelizer or some other utility to view these TIFF files - DeBabelizer will let you open them & save them in a readable TIFF format for Photoshop, PhotoSuite, etc...

-- Barry Kushin (bkushin@pacbell.net), July 08, 2000.