camera serial / usb connection

[lanan]

My Olympus camera has a serial connector lead.
I have a serial to usb lead to connect to pc.
Camera software does not find camera,
What have I not done, or done wrong?
Win XP
Many Thanks
Graham

[puggit]

Idiot question I'm afraid: Are you switching the camera on? Sometime you also need to enter 'play' mode...

[GreenV8S]

It's often important that you instal the driver software that came with the camera, before you connect the camera to the PC the first time. This ensures that the PC recognises the device type correctly. Did your camera come with software/instructions?

[zumbruk]

I have an Olympus camera with a serial connection, also.

I got so tired of the unreliability of the scabby Olympus software and the slowness of the serial link, that in the end I bought a Belkin USB media card reader (£15 from John Lewis, IIRC) and I just take the card out of the camera, stick it in the card reader & it pops up as a disk drive on the PC.

[malman]

zumbruk said:

I have an Olympus camera with a serial connection, also. I got so tired of the unreliability of the scabby Olympus software and the slowness of the serial link, that in the end I bought a Belkin USB media card reader (£15 from John Lewis, IIRC) and I just take the card out of the camera, stick it in the card reader & it pops up as a disk drive on the PC.

If its based on the c30w95 camera software this is the easiest route.