Image Acquisition
By that I mean getting those images from the Compact Flash Card
onto my PC and into a form I can readily use. Forget NikonView -
Iīve already said I donīt use the
serial connection. Instead, I plug the Compact Flash Card into a
 PC
Card (PCMCIA) slot on my laptop using a Compact Flash Adapter. This
results in the Compact Flash Card appearing as another disk drive
under Windows 95 which can then be accessed by any software. The
actual software I use to get the files off the Compact Flash card
onto my hard drive is called Picture
Information Extractor. Itīs released as Shareware,
so you can try it before you buy it. I thoroughly recommend this
program - especially as it only costs a meagre 18.95 USD to buy.
This amazing little program, by author Holger Jungk in Berlin, includes the following features as of version 2.6 (taken from PIEīs read me file):
- Flexible renaming of digital photos
- Lossless JPEG-Rotation
- Rotate single pictures or Rotate in batch mode
- Automated file transfer from your SmartMedia-card-adapter including renaming/redating (registered version)
- Free scalable thumbnail view
- Instant view/auto select of new files
- Full screen mode (registered version)
- View pictures and their exposure information in full screen
- Drag displayed text on your preferred screen position
- Saving picture information in standard textfiles
- Automatic monitoring of the 'picinfo.txt'-files
- Advanced picture information
- File sorting by name, date, shutter, aperture, zoom, ..
- Move and Copy picture files per Drag&Drop
- Drag from and into the PIE window (OLE Drag)
- Manual renaming of files. This will automatically update 'picinfo.txt'
- Delete files
- Open pictures with your favorite editor (Double click or right button click)
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