Digital photography & design software forum: How to capture images from a digital camera directly to PC?

I don't use either Access or digital cameras so I am perhaps not the best person to reply.

But I don't think this is a camera problem, rather it is an Access coding problem. You would need to program Access to capture a file name, but that file name will be different for each photo/image.

For example if your field in Access is coded to get an image stored on the hard drive named;
"Family-10-23-07", the path would be C:\My Documents\My Photos\Family\Family-10-23-07, (or wherever the image is stored).

So that path and file name is hard-wired into the field. How do you do that to an image where the name could be anything? The path would be easy enough, depending what drive letter is assigned to the camera in My Computer. But as the camera assigns a different name to each image file as the image/photo is taken, how do you code that unknown file name into the field?

I think that's what you need to be searching for, specialized coding for the Access field.

Mark

Dear Kevin, You bring good news! I'm trying to set up a homemade document camera that can take high resolution "snap shots" of the document the camera is looking at. (Video capture software seems to be disappointingly "lo-res"). In your reply you state:
"Of course it can be done. Been going on for many years.
You need an IT person to explain and set it up for you.

Who is out there to explain it?

ALL digital cameras are capable of doing what you want to accomplish."

Could you point me in the right direction so I might learn how to do this?
Thanks, Bruce

Bob, Never thought of lockup and drivers.
Thanks for you help and answer. Nice to learn new solutions from you.

-Kevin