I am having so much fun with my camera. It’s a little bit scary how much fun I am having. And the whole hooking-camera-up-to-computer thing is so easy that it frightens me. Although I do get a weird message about the “device not being unhooked properly” when I take the USB cable out. I can’t figure that part out. But the photos have been imported. And here we go. This is the first round. The first batch of photos I took.
HOBOKEN DUSK
BLOCKBUSTER: ALL OUT
FRAGMENT
MY FRONT DOOR
AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
ELEVATOR FLOOR, 30 ROCK
GRACE ON 46TH STREET
HOBOKEN DUSK II
TIMES SQUARE PIRATE 20 STORIES HIGH
I think you have to “stop the device” before you pull the USB cable out. Otherwise, supposedly, it can delete things accidentally off the camera (or other device).
But, I’m no expert.
But what device?? The camera? But …. how? Help???
Basically I wanted to import all of the photos – and delete them off my camera because my memory stick was full …. so that’s fine – i imported them – but then … when I removed the cable, it was like i wasn’t supposed to or something.
And the “handbook” that came with my camera is USELESS in this regard!
Just turn your camera off and then unplug it or click on the little green arrow icon in the bottom right corner of your desktop toolbar to “Safely remove USB device”. If you unplug the cable while your camera and your computer are both on, you get that message. It’s about the same as unplugging your computer while it’s still on rather than shutting it down properly. If you were finished when you did it, you probably didn’t do any damage. It’s always a good idea to disconnect properly.
Nice pics, Sheila. Would love to see Loreena Mckennit.
I’m no expert here either (and especially not on Mac), but if your memory is empty now… I’d take one picture, connect to the computer, move it to the hard drive, and then before you disconnect the cable, try making sure the power on the camera is off. See if the message comes up then. I browsed quickly through the documentation for your camera…. it *seems* to indicate that you should press something on your camera before you connect, but the documentation *is* weird because it shows the power button on your camera and yet talks about turning on the computer power. See Step 3 on page 66 of the manual, where it says “Press the playback button to turn on the computer.” with a helpful arrow to your CAMERA’s playback button.
Ann Marie
Just about every flash based camera acts as a mass storage device when you plug it in. It’s effectively mounting the card as a “hard drive” when you plug it in so you can access the photos on it.
If you just yank the cable out or turn the camera off, the card does not get un-mounted properly, and data loss and/or corruption can result.
So, just eject the card before you unplug it or turn it off (assuming a Mac), and you’re good.
First — I am LOVING your new camera, too. Woo hoo!
Those street lamps in Hoboken are charming. That whole street, actually, those twinkling lights in the car window — I just want to find a cafe and cozy up. Seems romantic to me, somehow, to my Southern California eyes.
Your front door! I love how that entry area looks like it’s from the 30’s or 40’s. The lighting. Those tied white curtains. The glowing wood. The area rug. Is it Asian? I can’t tell the design so much, but I love the whole vibe. Seems like you to me.
The 30 Rock carpet — heeeeeeee! But also, hahahaha, because, uhm: “Did we mention we are NBC??” Love the unabashed peacock carpet.
This is all so cool to me. And I love how I repeatedly used the word love here. In case anything was unclear. Just picture this entire comment with a subtle heart pattern carpet underneath it, mmkay?
God, you people are all so amazing. Thank you for the tips – I think I get what I did wrong now = thank you!!
tracey – and I love your comment. I love it. I love it. Did I mention that I love it?? hahaha
The 30 Rock carpet cracks me up too. Everywhere you look there is a branding opportunity.
The rug in my foyer is a big battered Oriental rug – kinda cheap, actually – but it definitely warms up the area, which is cold marbley echoey tile. And you can actually see the door to my apartment too. I’m right up the steps on the inside.
Yay for taking pictures – I am seirously having so much fun.
The gargantuan Johnny Depp truly amazes me. Now THAT is being a superstar. I mean, look at that!!! So hot!
I love the Johnny Depp billboard. If I were not a sane, married, housewife & mother, I would totally have my bedroom wall dedicated to that image. Could you imagine? Oh, my.
And I love the idea of you taking pictures of the floor. Like, pointing your camera at the ground and snapping away, and there aren’t even any feet, no, just the floor, thanks. LOL.
May I just steal Tracey’s comment? Because I agree with every single word she wrote – well, maybe except for the Southern California eyes… other than that, I agree 100%, especially the LOVE part!! :)
More photoblogging! I love it, especially the Radio City fragment. Neon looks so cool in photos, and if not for Loreena McKennit’s name there, which establishes the general era of the photo, that shot could could pass for something taken decades ago and no one would know the difference. Awesome.
Waitaminnit…Jack Sparrow left-handed? Is that artistic license on the poster? I’m left-handed (and Inigo Montoya and the Dread Pirate Roberts are not)…you’d think I would notice if Sparrow were. Ah well.
Great pictures. I like your foyer. It looks like a place you’d look at and say, “Good. I’m home.”
MY FRONT DOOR
Finally!
I’m a little late to the scary device unhooking message party, but here’s my two cents worth: When you connect USB devices to Macs, you usually get some sort of drive that appears on your desktop. It might be a generic white box or it could have it’s own special icon, depending on the product. Whatever form the icon takes, the text under it will probably be something identifying it as your camera.
What you need to do is unmount this “drive” before you turn off the camera or disconnect it. This can be done by just dragging the icon to the trash. Don’t worry, it won’t delete your pictures; it knows what your trying to do. There are other ways of unmount it (command+click or through Finder), but this is the easiest.
Second what Mark says: also, when you open a Finder window when your camera is plugged in you should see a drive icon under your hard drive icon in the upper left corner. (since you have a Sony camera, it will be called something like MSSONY). If you click on it, you’ll get a little eject icon to the right of the drive icon which will unmount your camera.
If you are using iPhoto to pull in your images, if you right-click/control-click on the camera in the Sources pane, you will get an unmount command as well.
You stink. I could take pictures all day and not get cool images like that.
…You don’t stink. That was just petty photography-envy talking.
Good pix. I can’t ever get nice shots like that at dusk because my digital REFUSES to take a picture with insufficient light. Literally, it says “You do not have enough light for that function” and won’t listen to me.
I am the human being dammit and you will click that damn shutter when I press your damn button.
**koff** sorry… Nice pictures. I’m not bitter.
Also – I don’t know what PC you’re using, but some of them actually come with memory card readers – this way you don’t have to turn on the camera and plug it in. You simply take out the memory card and stick that in the proper slot and away you go.
Nightfly – yeah, I have a Mac – and that doesn’t have a slot for the Memory Stick thing. My printer has a slot – but the dern thing doesn’t fit.
It appears that the USB cable will be sufficient – I just need to follow all the instructions above so I don’t get that scary “device unplugged” message.
And I LOVE taking pictures in low light with no flash and having it come out somewhat accurately …
My next struggle is: when I go to upload these to my blog – it says “FILE TOO LARGE TO UPLOAD”. So then i have to go into the Photosmart Studio on my Mac – reduce the size (but then, when I do that – the color shifts – just slightly … and then I have to futz with the special effects to get the vividness back) … and then upload it.
I’ll keep experimenting. It’s really fun!
If you’d like to have a card reader instead of connecting the camera via USB, you could get something like this for around $20. But you’ll still get the scary “device unplugged” message if you don’t unmount that either, so I don’t know how much of an advantage it would be to you. The reason I use one is because my old camera is a battery pig and connecting it directly sucks (literally and figuratively).
That’s where Flickr comes in, you upload the photos to Flickr and then hyperlink to the Flickr photo instead of loading it into your blog. Et Viola! No more ‘File Too Big to Upload’ messages. But it is really fun to experiment (and addicting!)