USB > SERIAL/PARALLEL

[STRAT]

Hi guys

 

Shock horror i hear you cry, STRAT using the technical forum!!!!

 

This will prolly more apply to uk ppl, but who knows?

 

i just bought a tiny digicam on a keyring for about £30. damn cheesy but cool with it.

 

it gave me a USB cable to d/l the images to my 'pute, which is fine in work, but i want to d/l them on my laptop at home too. only my laptop hasn't not got USB.

 

So i need to purchase a USB to serial or parallel convertor. The cheapest i seen is so far around £55 - nearly double the camera price.

 

Does anyone know of any cheap on-line shops i can browse through and purchase a much cheaper one? i dont really want to pay more than £10 for one. or anyone in the UK have one they wouldn't mind selling?

 

Greg got any useful links?

 

cheers ppl

 

[ September 24, 2002, 02:31 AM: Message edited by: STRAT ]

[quizzy]

I don't think it will work because SERIAL/PARALEL are not plug and play, so you need special drivers to DL your piccies to the laptop.. IMHO..

[STRAT]

maybe right there, thats why i want sommit cheap, and hopefully it'll come with drivers. even sommit like this would be useful, and this only costs $2.99 -

 

[quizzy]

I would check for drivers first, if its not possible, even 1 pound is too much...

[plastic]

this will most likely not work.

usb->ps2 converters only work with mice, afaik.

there are usb->pc-card converters, which also only work if the pc-card slot is one of the newer cardbus interfaces.

your laptop doesn't have usb connectors, that means, chance is high that it also doesn't support the cardbus standard.

i was in the same situation, the only thing that worked with my laptop was a pc-card reader (which doesn't require cardbus) to directly plug in the camera flash card (memory stick) into the laptop, which is the most elegant but not cheapest solution.

if your camera uses a compact flash card, pc-card adapters are not too expensive (because compact flash cards have their own controller, as opposed to smart media or memory stick)

[STRAT]

Hi Marc

 

this has been suggested to me, and this is how we do it in work with our older laptops there, except this camera i just purchased has to flash card or mem stick of the like - what you see is wat you get.

 

http://www.gadgetshop.com/tgs/defaultframes.asp

 

look under cool gadgets on the r/h side, first image.

[Guest alkion]

Hey STRAT

i will assume that you are not a PC WORLD fan - i wonder why- but why don't you try their wesite?

[STRAT]

hi alkion

 

must admit, pc world not the first choice of mine, but after looking there they seem to have something for around 16 quid. if i can get a full refund on this i'll give it a try.

 

tnx guys.