"Ron Hunter" wrote in message
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Sadie Jenson via PhotoKB.com wrote:
Need Advice

Traveling to Chicago this weekend (for four days) to visit my daughter.
Taking Kodak DX6490. I had an extremely bad experience with version 3.2 ES.
It took over my Internet connection, my ownership of my photos, and my CD
Burner. I finally resolved all of those issues (phew ! '*_*') and despise
feeling paranoid / limited over the amount of photos I take over my four-day
visit. I could bring the 4.0.2 software along and load just the drivers and
save to daughter's computer (but ... it is really her roomate's computer and
I don't want to cause said roomate any iota of the pain I have experienced).

Suggestions, Please ... Trust the 4.0.2 version and download it? My gut
feeling is that I should purchase some extra memory cards. Any and all
advise appreciated, photog gurus.

Hopefully in the near future I will be asking REAL photography
questions. I bought my camera on e-Bay and it is my FIRST camera with a
serious zoom. I realize that the DX 6490 has it's (artistic?) limitaitons,
but I am very pleased so far with the photos I have taken and am looking
forward to experimenting further. The camera came with macro lenses and
lens attachment thingy. ANYWAY ... back to the subject matter ... HELP with
what to do to take max # of photos (I come up with endless ideas and don't
want to miss opportunities). On 'good' picture quality I am able to take 40
pics! So, for now I stick with that for quantity ... quality will come
later.

Is that a good tactic to take? Thank you all for your wonderful
assistance and friendly advice.

Sadie


First, one should always strive for quality. Just a few extra seconds
of thought can make a better picture, but much experience, and some
study, is needed so that you will know what to do, and what not to do.
Many of the pictures I take are for documentation only. That is, I
don't have time, or opportunity, to compose a shot, or pose people, and
I just take the picture to aid in remembering the occassion, or to share
it with those who weren't present. These aren't great pictures, nor are
they art, in any sense, but they ARE of use to those who want to see how
much a grandchild has grown, or to see a new baby.

As for dealing with putting pictures on someone else's computer, I
STRONGLY recommend getting a card reader and just using the computer's
OS to do the transfers. It is easy, quick, and leaves nothing on the
user's computer but the picture data. If the computer doesn't have
WinXP or one of the newer Mac OS's, then a driver disk may be required,
but these seldom cause trouble, and can be uninstalled after you are done.


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Ron Hunter

Good advice. Kodak EasyShare has recently been the subject of malware
reports, because it loads BackWeb software without clearly disclosing that
fact to the user. I have deleted it from my hard drive, along with all the
numerous Registry references to BackWeb, along with the BackWeb executable.
I have also set my firewall to deny any requests for BackWeb to access the
Internet, just in case it might still be on my system.

Sorry, but the price of "free" EasyShare software is too high, if it means
that this malware must be included.