How can I import my picturess from an old camera to a new one?

Question

How can I import my pictures from an old camera to a new one after importing them to my computer?

Answer 1

If you really must do this (and I can't understand why you would wish to do so), just connect the card for your new camera to the computer and transfer the pictures.



As for using the same card in different cameras, I have been doing this since 2000 when I brought my first digital camera with no problems. I've just formatted a number of SD cards for a new camera I brought which I had been using in my previous one

Answer 2

While you could do this, the warning is that if the photos are not the proper format (size and filename), the camera can corrupt the memory card.



Normally, when a camera uses a memory card, it will create it's own folder (under the DCIM folder), This allows you to use the same card with more than one camera as each camera creates it's own folder. This practice was intended to be done when the standards for camera cards were developed.



I have 6 different digital cameras, and contrary to the advice above, I use them on all of the cameras without any regard as to which one goes where - and I have yet to have any problem with any memory card issues.



The reason this works is that each camera uses it's own folder, and no camera knows about the other camera as it doesn't care what is on the card outside of it's own folder.



However, I do NOT use one camera to view the files created from another camera on the same card, as that IS asking for trouble (corrupt card, lost files, etc). To do that, you would have to copy the photos from one camera's folder to the other, but I am not recommending you do that, as again, if the camera cannot properly recognize the files or the format, it can corrupt them.



However, the advice above about not using the SD card as permanent photo storage for a camera I agree with as best practice. Use the SD card chiefly for taking photos and transferring them to your computer, where you can maintain multiple backups of them.

Answer 3

No, no, that's wrong. The rule is one card / one camera. Never switch cards from one camera to another. In the first place the new one can't read the files from the old and you can destroy the card and you'll lose everything.



Cameras and memory cards are not storage and display devices. You can not transfer this way because again, the second camera can read the files from the first.

Answer 4

Take the memory card from the old camera and put it in the new one...

Answer 5

NO

they won't show up in the new one