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Digital Camera or Scanner, and not Both?

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by robert.walsh

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After receiving a gift of a Largan Digital camera, which I took pictures with for Christmas, I wanted to hook it up to my PC.
Easy enough I thought, since the driver I downloaded from the asian manufacturer went in as smooth as butter. So I thought here goes and I opened the Adobe software to choose the device to receive pictures from and the drop down indicated a list item for 'Scanner / Camera' a big one or the other. I have not been able to reach the camera even though it looks OK in the devices list. Is this a software or hardware issue and what to try next ? Largan site has not helped as a web resource and I don't find any English help for this anywhere. I run on Windows 95 and don't know much about Twain. Sure would be nice to see those pictures! Bob in Southbury, CT.

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by don christner

How does your camera connect to the computer? Mine connects through a serial connection, therefore, I had to set the communication protocol, i.e. 9600,n,8,1.

Don

P.S. It's not xmas yet, are you cheating? :)

by mphoffar

Twain is a just an interface for thingsl ike digital camera hookups or scanners. Unfortunately, twain can only support 1 acquiring device at a time. You're either acquiring from the Camera or you['re aquiring from the scanner but not aquiing from both. Basically adobe will tell the twain files (in the windows system directory) which source it's acquiring from. In your case, you're going to be aquiring from the Camera.

It sounds like in this is setup, when you aquire from the Camera, itdownloads the whole lot into adobe contingent you have the camera hooked to the PC.

You'll need to change from scanner to camera everytime you want to use one or the other. Adobe may have a way you can point it to a sevondary INI for convience purposes that way you can make a shortcut for say adobe camera and adobe scanner.

Good luck to you

Mark

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