Is there anything we can do?

[Chris3jam]

We have a Nikon D1X, which, apparently, is outmoded. Long story short, the firewire port is obsolete. . . . . there is no longer a windows driver to support this camera. This basically renders this camera useless, since we connect it to the computer for almost-instant showing of the pictures (and cropping, etc.). We absolutely cannot afford another camera. Short of finding a very old (working) computer still running on service pak 2, it seems we have no choice. Is there *anything* else we can do? At all?

[[Admin] osborn4]

Here's a conversation about it with some ideas on what to try.

Can you uninstall SP3?

Could you use a card reader, instead?

[kbob]

just get a usb based external card reader that supports the format

Well, la tee da-DPR website has this cam in their extensive database on the timeline-

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0102/01...ikond1xd1h.asp

If you're using one of the older microdrives, you might have a hard time finding a reader for that, but otherwise the card reader looks like the way to go. Have a couple of cards and just swap back and forth if you need to keep pulling picks off the camera.

[kbob]

looks like great minds think alike!

osborn4's reference even references the card reader idea..since rolling back sp 3 seems extreme now that it's the last supported xp version by MS.

[tedanderson]

Did you lose your driver CD or is it a matter of your current OS not being compatable with the driver/camera?

If this camera worked before on an older operating system you could always ask someone to donate their older PC to the church and then dedicate it for this purpose.

I have hardware and applications that only work on Windows 95/98 and NT4. There is nothing wrong with the stuff other than the fact none of it will work on my XP machines (not even in compatability mode) because there are no recent drivers. So I simply keep the equipment running on my Win98SE machine. I do not use it to connect to the internet or to perform any other tasks so I don't really have any issues as it relates to security and critical updates.

EDIT: Forget what I just said. I missed the following part of the post:

Short of finding a very old (working) computer still running on service pak 2, it seems we have no choice. Is there *anything* else we can do? At all?

[Chris3jam]

Well, thanks for trying to help! I guess we'll just have to switch out our cards. It just takes a lot longer to do it that way. I guess we just got spoiled. I don't know of anyone who may have an old computer that we can use.

[tedanderson]

You could probably shop around for one. P3's w/SP2 are so cheap and readily available these days you could probably pick up one in the newspaper for next to nothing.