Re: digital cameras

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:17:52 -0800, The Real Bev
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Bob Ward wrote:
>> 
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> >It's hard to find a camera with a serial uploading interface now, and
>> >there's a reason -- miserable slowness.  Make sure you have USB2
>> >capability, even cheesy cameras can't use the older USB ports.
>> 
>> That simply is not so, Bev.  By definition, USB 2.0 is backward
>> compatible with USB 1.1.  If your camera is not, it isn't really USB
>> 2.0
>
>Sue me.  The same camera was invisible to the older machine but loaded
>easily with the newer machine.  I bought a USB2 card for her machine, I
>just haven't put it in yet.
>

Did the older machine have the correct drivers installed?  Windows 98
doesn't ship with as many drivers pre-installed as XP does.

This has nothing to do with USB 1.1 or USB 2.0... it is an operating
system issue.


>> http://www.usb-2-0.com/what-is-usb-2-0.html
>> 5. Will USB 2.0 improve the speed of other devices connected to My
>> computer?
>> No. In order to take advantage of the faster speeds, you must plug in
>> a USB 2.0 device into a USB 2.0 compliant computer
>> (or a computer that has been recently upgraded to USB 2.0). However,
>> as USB 2.0 is fully backward compatible, you will be
>> able to use a USB 1.1 device in a USB 2.0 compliant system.
>
>This does not say that a USB2 device will work on a USB1 machine.