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Posted by: EspiritLaguna89 on 2023-05-10 13:21:45
Hi all, I'm trying to establish a workflow for getting photos off my old QuickTake 100. I've got a PB 165 that works great for getting photos off the camera, my next step is to get them onto a bridge machine (in this case PowerBook G4 titanium with OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.1 installed). I got a USB 2 floppy drive and I'm having a ton of compatibility problems. I try copying the photos onto a disk on my PB165 and it always shows as unreadable on the TiBook.
Now, I have tried a number of troubleshooting steps- first I inserted the original PhotoFlash install floppies that are with the QuickTake and they read just fine. Second I put in a brand new blank Mac formatted floppy. It showed up on both machines! Great! But as soon as I copied my test pictures onto it, it wouldn't read in the TiBook. Same error as before
I'm stumped, I don't know if there's something I'm doing wrong, if my disks are the wrong type (1.44mb 2HD disks should work in both AFAIK) or what. Any help is much appreciated, I wanna see these images in full color! |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-05-10 13:29:05
Hi all, I'm trying to establish a workflow for getting photos off my old QuickTake 100. I've got a PB 165 that works great for getting photos off the camera, my next step is to get them onto a bridge machine (in this case PowerBook G4 titanium with OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.1 installed). I got a USB 2 floppy drive and I'm having a ton of compatibility problems. I try copying the photos onto a disk on my PB165 and it always shows as unreadable on the TiBook.
Now, I have tried a number of troubleshooting steps- first I inserted the original PhotoFlash install floppies that are with the QuickTake and they read just fine. Second I put in a brand new blank Mac formatted floppy. It showed up on both machines! Great! But as soon as I copied my test pictures onto it, it wouldn't read in the TiBook. Same error as before
I'm stumped, I don't know if there's something I'm doing wrong, if my disks are the wrong type (1.44mb 2HD disks should work in both AFAIK) or what. Any help is much appreciated, I wanna see these images in full color! Do you have any macs with an ethernet port and Serial ports? |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-05-10 13:30:43
Note the QuickTake software is also buggy. Try using GraphicConverter to convert them into jpgs, and only use PhotoFlash to download from the camera. |
Posted by: EspiritLaguna89 on 2023-05-10 13:33:26
Do you have any macs with an ethernet port and Serial ports? My TiBook has Ethernet, but it can't run PhotoFlash on OS 9. I also have a G3 PowerBook with serial ports and Ethernet that works for My QuickTake 200, but no floppy drive to install PhotoFlash (I could probably burn it onto a CD if its online somewhere). |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-05-10 13:38:10
My TiBook has Ethernet, but it can't run PhotoFlash on OS 9. I also have a G3 PowerBook with serial ports and Ethernet that works for My QuickTake 200, but no floppy drive to install PhotoFlash (I could probably burn it onto a CD if its online somewhere).
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Posted by: EspiritLaguna89 on 2023-05-10 14:47:57
Ah, so the fun part now is PhotoFlash doesn't really seem to work on OS8 or OS9. Fun |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-05-10 14:56:38
Ah, so the fun part now is PhotoFlash doesn't really seem to work on OS8 or OS9. Fun Does the update they mention help? It's buried in a CD disk image sadly. |
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