Problems with ZoomBrowser EX

[Thierry Jacob]

I have a Powershot S30 camera and a PC under Windows 98.

I experience the following problems with the ZoomBrowse EX software provided with the camera:

1) When I transfer images through the USB connection with ZoomBrowser EX, it take ages. Not for reading the picture on the camera and sending it to the computer (lights flash briefly on the camera while the indicator on the small window that shows on the computer screen moves left to right), but there is a very long pause before it starts with the next picture.

2) I cannot change the directory where the pictures and database are stored: when I try to do so and select a new directory, I am only shown the path from C:\ to C:\Program Files\Canon\ZoomBrowser EX.
No other drives nor directories are visible.

Does anyone have an idea about this ?

Thanks in advance,--Thierry

 

[ix]

1) When I transfer images through the USB connection with
ZoomBrowser EX, it take ages. Not for reading the picture on the
camera and sending it to the computer (lights flash briefly on the
camera while the indicator on the small window that shows on the
computer screen moves left to right), but there is a very long
pause before it starts with the next picture.

ive found zoombrowser to be incredibly slow as well, with my s40. the built in windows XP camera downloading feature is much faster. and with setting the view in your file windows to 'thumbnail' you can browse around even more effectively than you could inside zoombrowser. the only thing is i cant figure out if theres a way to let the XP digicam util retain the fliename that the camera had, rather than start back at 001 every time you download a new batch...

to answer #2 look around in the menus for "register new directory" or something. theres a way to set it up somewhere besides the default.

 

[Mike K]

You might consider using the free downloader progarm from Chris Breeze,
http://www.breezesys.com/G1/Downloader/index.htm

It is quite a bit more flexible than zoombrowser, which has a reputation for crashing. Whatever you do, don't delete or move images from Zoombrowser except with zoombrowser based commands, ie don't use windows explorer on zoombrowser. This will corrupt the ZB database. If you still find camera downloading too slow i would suggest getting a CF card reader, they are relatively inexpensive. If you shoot RAW you should also try out Breezebrowser, a trial version is avialable. Here is a good description of this product.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/BB_review/index.html
Mike K

1) When I transfer images through the USB connection with
ZoomBrowser EX, it take ages. Not for reading the picture on the
camera and sending it to the computer (lights flash briefly on the
camera while the indicator on the small window that shows on the
computer screen moves left to right), but there is a very long
pause before it starts with the next picture.

ive found zoombrowser to be incredibly slow as well, with my s40.
the built in windows XP camera downloading feature is much faster.
and with setting the view in your file windows to 'thumbnail' you
can browse around even more effectively than you could inside
zoombrowser. the only thing is i cant figure out if theres a way to
let the XP digicam util retain the fliename that the camera had,
rather than start back at 001 every time you download a new batch...

to answer #2 look around in the menus for "register new directory"
or something. theres a way to set it up somewhere besides the
default.

 

[roumen]

Thierry,

In order to avoid database crashes of ZoomBrowser EX I use in every new download adding a new Image Library (File > Add Image Library and chosing a new folder - example 06012002; I use Windows Explorer to create such a folder). Before download I just use mouse right click/rotate command on the images that should be rotated.

Click on the folder name in the right window, select the images from the camera and start download.

After download I just use File > Forget Image Library command in order to have no database crashes later.

I found ZoomBrowse EX downloading quite useful - the speed is the same like with Breeze downloader tool but you could rotate the images before downloading.

You may be need more memory for your computer - ZoomBrowser EX use much more memory than Breeze downloader.

Greetings,

Roumen

I have a Powershot S30 camera and a PC under Windows 98.
I experience the following problems with the ZoomBrowse EX software
provided with the camera:

1) When I transfer images through the USB connection with
ZoomBrowser EX, it take ages. Not for reading the picture on the
camera and sending it to the computer (lights flash briefly on the
camera while the indicator on the small window that shows on the
computer screen moves left to right), but there is a very long
pause before it starts with the next picture.

2) I cannot change the directory where the pictures and database
are stored: when I try to do so and select a new directory, I am
only shown the path from C:\ to C:\Program Files\Canon\ZoomBrowser
EX.
No other drives nor directories are visible.

Does anyone have an idea about this ?

Thanks in advance,
--
Thierry