Praktica DCZ3.2S Digital Camera - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

The best way to transfer pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries. Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo management program such as Picasa. Organize edit and share your photos

Hi lightblue,

It sad to know that you have lost your installation disc, i hope you find it.

As of now you can download the drivers from this link :- http://bit.ly/lsfsPN

Please remember to save your driver files , in a separate folder , if possible a removable storage drive so that you can use them in the future.

Hope this helps ..:) Your feed back would be appreciated.

The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.

Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program, such as the free Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).

Commonly there are two ways to transfer pictures from camera to PC, the first is using the USB provide it with the camera or the second is removing SD memory from the camera and insert it to a SD reader/writer connected to your PC.
If you want to use USB connection, the camera driver must be installed first or according to its user manual instructions, if you don't have installation CD, please check the manufacturer web site:
http://www.praktica.de/index.php?id=5&L=1

Hi, You can download it here : www.opendrivers.com/.../cameras-and-mp3-player-praktica-free-driver-download.html

1. www.driverwikipedia.com/drivers/.../Praktica/DCZ-5.8-Digital-Camera-Driver-63.html
   
   Best regards, Jay

Please get it here : www.praktica-uk.com/dload.php
www.opendrivers.com/companydriver/.../praktica-free-driver-download.html

Jay__GT

SD cards have a slide switch along one edge. The position farthest from the contacts locks the card, protecting it from writes. The position nearest the contacts unlocks the card. If the switch is already in the proper position, slide it fully the other way and then back again.
If that doesn't work, try another card.

You do not need Windows 7 - any functioning windows PC or Mac that can accept a USB cable should be able to see your camera's memory folders. Put the camera on and 1- On a PC they appear at Start/My computer/ and in a folder somewhere within E: or D: click on folders within folders to find and copy your photo folder manually. and paste it on your computer hard drive.
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On a Mac it appears on the desktop.

Try to download and use picasa to import photos.

Use a separate card reader.

hi , you need to have a cable to connect to computer from computer transfer to memory card.

Hi Patrick,

That happens to mine when the batteries are getting low. More so when the flash is on auto.

Try disengaging the flash and see what happens. If it works, replace the batteries.

Best regards,
Mike

Check here:

http://www.praktica.de/index.php?id=173&L=1

hey! u r stuck to such a simple problem. well not to worry when i'm here.
first of all u check whether ur card is locked??? Check the sides of the card and u will find a small slider, slide it down and then insert into ur card reader.
then open My computer, there u will find written removable drive beside the cd drive or so. open it and u will find ur photos. then single right click on any of the photo, a pop-up menu will appear, select to 'copy' option and then open the drive where u want to paste ur photo, and there again single right click and select 'paste'. and guess what ??? it's done!
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just phoned the praktica company and you cant download from camera to memory card you need a usb lead which they supply at £10.00 cheque or postal order

Dear Willo2,

You can not download pictures to your card. YOu can copy them with your computer. Just plug your card in to your printer, plug your camera into your computer and copy the DCIM file from your 100_**** (where **** means your camera name, ex:100_fuji.

Yours Sincerely,
Dakota Ekman

heyii u get its software manual installed in ur computer..or if not available with u then i guess some other pc suite of the same series would also work.. else open up the menu of ur cam and change the USB settings to 'mass storage',then it will work as a card reader for you and you can access all the data inside.. and then you can just copy and paste your images.. belated merry x-mas and happy new year :)

heyii if you do not have any kind of cable with it then you can go to some electronic shoppe and get a card reader for your camera's memory card..

Check the 'My Computer' for an unfamiliar drive; if as most PCs, you have a C:, D:, E: listed, these are the basics; C: & D: are the hard drive (partitioned), E: is whatever optical drive you have. You may have others such as several named drives for a digital card drive may be present too. Depending on how your camera's memory is recognized, you should have a drive you didn't before. Open the last named drive to see what (if anything) it shows for folders and files. If it brings up an error message about having nothing to read, work your way forward in the alphabet and check each. Customarily, Win will add any new drives at the end of the series of named drives.       
If you find folders on a drive later in the alphabet, open them to look at the content. If you find a bunch of .jpg files, you are there.
If you find nothing, you may have to download an additional driver since the Praktica is not a real common camera, Vista may not have provided a default driver for it.

Vista should be capable of recognizing your camera and installing a basic driver if it is connected to the PC when you turn the power on.

I was also unable to find a source for the manual but for Snapper Sal:

If you can establish communication with your computer, it will handle the internal camera memory as a disk drive from which you can copy your stored photos to duplicate (or move) them to a folder on your local hard drive.
Once there, you can insert your new memory card either into the camera or a memory card drive and again copy them from your computer hard drive onto the new card.

Dunno why you are doing this but it shouldn't be too difficult if you just treat the internal and add-on memory card as simply another drive.