How can I load photos back into the camera?
Monday, 28 December, 2009
OLDER QUESTION
How can I load photos back onto my camera's memory card so I can view them from the camera?
I Thought I would try and download some photographs to my 128M Compact Media card but when I try to view them in my digital camera (Canon Ixus v2) it say there are no images yet when I put the card into the computer it shows me the photos are there and shows them on the screen okay.
Your advice will be greatly appreciated.
(Originally posted February 2005)
David Armstrong, Thornlie, WA
 Great question David and there are a surprising number of folk out there who want to put their photos back onto the camera so they can show them to their friends or do a presentation. I'll answer the question generally, and not just for your Ixus.
The first thing to do is check with the camera manual, the software that came with the camera, and the manufacturer's website, as there may be a ready-made solution. Or even ask the manufacturer or post a question if there's a user discussion area.
Unfortunately, it's not easy to do by yourself. In some cases it's not easy to get the computer to recognise the camera as an external drive so you can upload the photos to it. In almost every other case, notwithstanding that you can get the photos onto your card, chances are that you can't actually see them in the camera when you do. However, you might be able to see the photos on, say, the preview screen of a photo printer or your TV.
To give yourself the best chance of being able to see the photos don't edit the photos and when you load them back use the same file names they had when you downloaded them. If you do edit the photos, make sure you resize and upload them in the same dimensions as your camera creates images, and use the same format, and name the files using the same filename structure as those you download from your camera. Hopefully the camera manual will tell you how the file naming structure works.
Make sure you put the photos in the right folder on your camera card - having at least one photo already stored on it should help you locate the 'right' folder. As soon as you edit your photos you run the risk of destroying some of the photos EXIF data and that's enough to alert most cameras to the fact that it's not their image that they're seeing and they'll refuse to do anything with it.
One technique that may work for some cameras is to open a photo direct from the camera in a program that protects EXIF data then paste the edited image over the top of it and save it without making changes to its size. You can renumber the photo file using Rename and copy it to the camera.
If you just want to upload photos onto your camera to have a portable slide show available to play on a TV, check out TV Writer software. It works with a number of camera models and both PAL and NTSC TVs and produces TV slide shows that run from a digital camera.
(I can see one very good reason for wanting to edit photos and put them back onto the card for a TV presentation -- it gives you a pain in the neck turning your head sideways for viewing the portrait shots. You can either rotate the pictures or in some cases edit them so they fit a landscape format. -Paul Zucker)Helen Bradley
 Reader solutions
yutPosted: 04/03/2010 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? i dont have a computer so i keep my photos on a iphone AajaniPosted: 19/01/2010 How can I get my pictures back onto my camera? I downloaded my cameras pictures onto my computer.No problem. But then when i looked to see the pictures back on my camera but they've dissapeared, Here are its exact words..."no pictures or videos to display on memory card" and the options are..Change to internal or exit reveiw.....Some one please help me...
(You've moved them, not copied them. Read the camera manual. -PZ) ginaPosted: 14/01/2010 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? HELP ME PLEASE GOING CRAZY! JohnPosted: 29/12/2009 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? Canon supply software that can copy photos from the computer back to the camera. Presumably it will restore it to correct folder in the correct format.
If you don't have the cd that came with the camera, download it from the Canon website.
I can't say if other makes have this feature. melissaPosted: 27/12/2009 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? i was trying to look at my pictures on my laptop and actidentally imported them to it i didnt want this to happen how do i get them back if i dont have the papers for the camera either?
plz help me!!!!!
(If you haven't altered the pictures, just open the camera as an external storage device on the computer and copy them back. If you don't understand that get a computer buddy to assist you. It should be quite easy. -PZ) melissaPosted: 18/11/2009 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? yea i am having a similar problem i downloaded pictures to the computer and i didnt know that after you did that they deleted off your camera so how can i get them back from the computer and into the camera.
(No, copying them doesn't delete them. Read the manual that ncame with the camera. -PZ) Tristan..Posted: 13/09/2009 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? My Camera is a Canon Powershot SD110...
Ive trying to put the images that i deleted off the memory card back on.
But when i view the pictures on the camera it says 'No Images'
But i also notice that when i go through the drivers on My computer it has used up space.
help plz?
(Take it to a digital photo shop and they may be able to recover the photos. -PZ) beckyPosted: 09/09/2009 load my pictues back om to my camera? i downloaded my pictures from my camera onto my computer bt i changed the file so my camera doesnt recognise the file i changed it back so how can my camera recoginse and save the file
(You've learned a lesson. Always keep a copy of the original photo and then change another copy. It costs almost nothing to archive a photo. -PZ) karelyPosted: 14/05/2009 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? i mean if i deleted all the pictures from my camera, how can i reload the pictures back to my memory card???
(Ah. Now I understand. The other people are talking abouit loading the pictures from the computer back to the camera. You want to recover photos that you've deleted. Take the card to a digital photo store and ask them if they can help. -PZ) RoukayaPosted: 07/03/2009 HELP!!!! i accidently clicked format on my samsung kenox s600 camera and now all my photos are gone!! i really need them back but i dont know how to get them. can someone please help me???!!!
(Take it to a photo-printing store. They will almost certainly have recovery software. Just don;t take any phots meantime. -PZ) MARTAPosted: 08/11/2008 re: How can I load photos back into the MEMORY CARD? I UPLOADED PICTURES FROM MY MEMORY CARD AND DELETED THEM OFF THE CAMERA. I WOULD LIKE TO RELOAD THEM BACK ONTO THE CAMERA. IS THIS POSSIBLE?
(Usually - yes. -PZ) SAMMYPosted: 17/10/2008 putting pictures back onto your camera i uploaded pictures into my computer, and now i can't put them back on my camera. it says on my camera that there are no photos in the folder. sharon burtonPosted: 26/06/2008 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? have downloaded several memory cards on to my computer. i want to load them all onto one memory card so i can use my digital camera frame. BillPosted: 05/02/2005 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? Oops, I really should read the posts more carefully. I was sure he meant the card was still in the camera. MohammadPosted: 04/02/2005 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? well it is kind of simple; at least for my camera Sony cybershot, but you try it yourself.
Cameras store their images in a certain folder in the memory card and if you put them in the root directory the camera cannot detect them. The same goes to those little photo centres in HN or Camera House shops. If you don't put the photos in a folder they cannot recognise them. Give it a try, it might work:) BillPosted: 04/02/2005 re: How can I load photos back into the camera? Try using a card reader instead of the camera.
I have tried this and it's more likely to work.
Keep using the same format and resolution for best results.
(I would have thought that what what David was doing already Bill. -Paul Zucker) |