Is Downloading Photographs From The Digital Camera Slow; Can The Album Keep The Original Size (Resolution) Of Photographs; Is It Possible To Play Short Videos Using The Album; The Album Does Not Work With My Camera, Why - Hama DigitalesPhotoalbum 7.0 Mode D'emploi

5.2 Is downloading photographs from the digital camera
slow?
Image data processing is time-consuming. The Album
optimizes the photographs being downloaded to achieve
faster and high quality viewing and therefore it need a
certain period of time to process each photograph.
The processing time depends also on how fast the digital
camera is able to transfer photographs from its memory
by means of the cable, and on how large individual photo-
graphs are. To speed up the transfer of photographs, we
recommend the following:
• if your digital camera allows various modes of
operating the USB connector, select the MASS
STORAGE (DATA STORAGE) mode
• if your digital camera features an SD or an MMC
memory card, do not connect it using the cable but
insert the camera card right into the Album; this is
specifically effective with cameras which have low
speed of data transfer using the USB cable.
• set your digital camera in a way to take photographs in
lower resolution. To view the photographs in the Album
well, it is enough to set the resolution of e.g. 1600 x 1200
(or 1280 x 960); this will considerably increase the
speed of processing the photographs, but you will also
be able to store more photographs in your digital
camera memory. Be careful when setting lower
resolution of photographs – it will not be possible to
resize them to large formats in future.
Tip: Prefer to download photographs to the Album more
frequently to have no more than about 200 photographs
per directory (a new directory is created for every
downloading session). If you have more than 200 photo-
graphs in your camera, the download time will be long,
and viewing such a large directory in the Album will be
uncomfortable.
5.3 Can the Album keep the original size (resolution) of
photographs?
The factory setting is that there takes place the compres-
sion (resolution adjustment) while downloading photo-
graphs to fit the screen of the Album (larger dimension is
calculated for the size of 800 pixels and the shorter one is
calculated to keep the photograph ration). This reduces
the data size and the quality of screen view remains
unchanged. In this mode, the Album can typically store
more than 20 thousand photographs.
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If you want to keep the original resolution of photographs
(their data size), turn off the RESIZE PHOTOS while
DOWNLOADING function in the ADVANCED SETTINGS
menu. Be careful, the larger photographs you download
to the Album, the fewer photographs can be stored. If you
download photographs that are too large, viewing such
photographs may be significantly slower (extremely large
photographs are not displayed at all).

5.4 Is it possible to play short videos using the Album?

No, the Album can display only photographs in a suitable
JPG format. Short videos use various formats in
different cameras and the Album ignores them entirely.

5.5 The Album does not work with my camera, why?

The Album is able to work with most digital cameras
which have the USB connection cable and behave like a
USB Mass Storage Device (flash disk) or use the USB
image interface with the PTP protocol. If your camera
gives you a choice, select the Mass Storage mode. To
connect the camera, always use the original USB
connection cable supplied with the camera.
If the Album does not react to the camera connection
using the cable:
• check if the camera is switched on (or switch it off and
on again),
• check if the camera enables setting the USB connector
operation mode to any of the abovementioned formats
(Mass Storage or PTP),
• if the camera uses an SD or an MMC memory card, you
can insert it directly into the Album and you do not have
to use the connection cable,
• if your camera does not have a suitable USB connector
operation mode and does not use an SD or an MMC
memory card, you can transfer the photograph to the
Album using a computer.
5.6 Photographs from the Album cannot be saved to the
connected USB memory or an SD card, why?
Check whether there is some free space in the connected
memory device (SD card), or if the memory device
is not protected against saving data. The memory device
(SD card) must be formatted (FAT32 format).
If the Album does not offer the option of saving photo-
graphs to the connected memory device (SD card) at all,
these functions may be disabled – see ADVANCED
SETTINGS.