Digital camera accessories

[Nick]

Hello Gail and all, I found you via the Outfront Webmaster Forum.

I purchased a digital picture frame for my wife for Christmas and she loves it. It will accept a variety of flash memory cards so I just went out and purchased a pny 2gb card from best buy to load it up with pictures.

Here is the problem, it is not recognizing the card when I put it into frame. I had the same problem with the 128mb memory stick from our Sony camera. I had copied a bunch of pictures to the stick and all it recognized were the photos that were in a particular folder. So I moved all the photos that were on the stick to the folder that it recognized and it works fine.

However, since this SD card is blank all I did was to copy pictures straight to it, but it's not working in the frame.

I tried to copy the sony stick to the pny stick but it won't let me. I do not have a camera that uses the SD card, so that is not an option.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Nick

[ShutterbugGail]

Hi there, Nick and welcome!

Glad you found us.

Boy, this is a stumper to be quite honest. I think your best bet would to call the maker of the frame.

Some questions and thoughts though.

Have you tried creating a folder on the SD card? Take at least one photo so the camera creates a folder. Format the card first.

Are the photos your transferring edited and, if so, how are you saving them? Are you changing the file names from how they are named by the camera? Sometimes this causes problem though I'm not certain with a Picture Frame.

[Nick]

Hi Gail,

Unfortunately I don't have a camera that accepts a SD card. I have one of those desktops that accepts all kinds of flash cards.

As far as editing, I don't to be honest... What I see is what I get.  

Ugh, I think you're right about being able to have it in a camera for even one photo though... There's gotta be a way... :-/

How does one format a memory card???

Thanks for the quick replay Gail!

Nick

[ShutterbugGail]

You format a memory card in a camera. You can format it on a computer but do consider calling the card company for the correct procedure.

Do you have  a friend or neighbor that has a camera that uses SD cards? Perhaps they can format it for you and take a photo, then a folder will be created.

However before you go messing around with all sorts of things and possibly corrupt the memory card, I really do recommend you contact the tech support of the manufacturer that made the picture frame.

Wish we could be of more help but we deal primarily with digital cameras here.

If you decide to contact the company, please share what you learn so others can benefit.

[Nick]

Hi again Gail,

I kept trying till I figured it out... I went to maker of card site, PNY and learned how to format card on PC with XP. Formatted it and it still didn't work.

Then went to Philips site again and found a firmware upgrade for SD card from 1gb to 2gb which is what I have. Did the firmware update and all is good to go!  

I'll never know if I had just done the firmware upgrade and not the format if it would have worked. That I would like to know.

Thanks for the help!

Nick

[ShutterbugGail]

Great! Thanks for sharing the solution. Never even thought about a firmware upgrade for a picture frame!

Hope you enjoy it. Gotta get me one.

Here's some info for those who may not be familiar with digital photo frames:


http://dev.digicamhelp.coms/cool-stuff/photoframe.php