From here, “Mercury vapor color temp is around 4200K and CRI in range of 50.”

Looks much better now.

(from Steve’s Digicams) We found a compatible Memory Stick on eBay, but this time she did not [...]]]>

At Bette’s school, the classroom digicam is a Sony Mavica MVC-FD200, circa 2002, very old school with a FLOPPY drive or Memory Stick media.

…Memory Stick card slot and can store up to 128MB of images

(from Steve’s Digicams) We found a compatible Memory Stick on eBay, but this time she did not have it, so used the floppy disk drive. I shoved the disk it, and all I found was a series of .411 files.

Huh? Would not open in Paint Shop Pro, ThumbsPlus or renaming to .jpg did not help. After a bit o’Googling I found they are thumbnail files for the camera, made to go along with an HTM file which the camera produces. The only way I could find to show the images are with an old-school Java 1.1 app, Javica.

So I downloaded the Java 1.1 JRE from Sun and installed it. Tried to run the javica.jar file, would not start. Reset JAVA_HOME and the PATH environments.

Test it:
C:\devtools\Java\jre1.1\bin>jre -cp .\Javica.jar
Java(tm) Runtime Loader Version 1.1.8_010

Opened the JAR with WinZip, read the Manifest. Nothing. Looked thru the class files. Found com.javica.Javica.class. Very sensible.

Take 2:
C:\devtools\Java\jre1.1\bin>jre -cp .\Javica.jar com.javica.Javica
Bam! The GUI comes up and shows horrible lo-resolution thumbnails. Basically unusable. But I could tell they were pictures of our house. Huh?

Then I noticed the files were from 2006. I found that I used the wrong disk. All jpgs were on the ORANGE floppy! These were thumbnails from older 2006 pictures, of which I had the jpgs.

At least I can say I ran a 1.1 JRE. Now I need to repair the registry:
Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion'
has value '1.1', but '1.6' is required.
Error: could not find java.dll
Error: could not find Java SE Runtime Environment.

These cameras are $988 on Amazon why?

It’s not pretty. I use the wonderful EXIFUtils to extract [...]]]>

Bette teaches kindergarten. She takes pictures, and as the computer consultant, I have to upload them to the Walgreens website. So I use iTag to review them and add the IPTC keyword tag “printme” to the ones she wants printed. How to convert to Walgreens?

It’s not pretty. I use the wonderful EXIFUtils to extract a list:

S:\pix>exiflist /o l -f file-name,ip-keyword . | grep printme | sort
VVKG_20080811_144431.jpg,Kindergarten; garden; sunflower; printme
VVKG_20080812_155541.jpg,Kindergarten; garden; sunflower; printme
...

Sort it for ease of picking. Grep to filter out the ones with printme. Simple.

Until you start with Walgreens. You can either work with their ActiveX uploader, which truncates the last part of the filename, or add one at a time via a Browse button and the standard file-open dialog, which is slow.

Needed: upload a list, or allow multiple selections in the browse box. Or a new print vendor with a location 1/2 mile away. Still cheaper than printing them on a printer.

Also, I could use ThumbsPlus – you can do queries on a folder based on a keyword, then move those into a temporary folder, then upload the temp folder. Might even be easier.

Walgreens photo processing
EXIFUtils
ThumbsPlus

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