Canon Powershot A470
Mikie
for me.
I have the manual in PDF format on my hard drive. I want to have it in
book form so I can study it and practice the various settings.
I thought of printing it but 184 pages is a LOT of ink and paper, and
very tricky to print two on a page, both sides of the paper. I wasted
a lot of paper trying. Okay, we're not all geniuses...
I would rather buy a book on the A470 but apparently there are none
available, anywhere. Can some one lead me to a vendor that DEFINITELY
has such an animal? I bought one for every camera I ever owned but
can't find a single one for the elusive A470.
Help?
Neil Ellwood
Just print the pages you want.
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Allen
"Mikie" <mp...@msn.com> wrote in message
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Copy the .pdf to a jump drive or cd and take it to Kinkos or other print
shops. They can print it out and bind it for you for probably no more than
you would spend buying a manual.
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ASAAR
> I entered this before and got a dozen responses, none of which worked
> for me.
>
> I have the manual in PDF format on my hard drive. I want to have it in
> book form so I can study it and practice the various settings.
I assume you mean when you're in the field and don't have access
to your computer. At home, I find it easer to read the PDF files
than the actual manuals, and the ability to search them is very
useful.
> I thought of printing it but 184 pages is a LOT of ink and paper, and
> very tricky to print two on a page, both sides of the paper. I wasted
> a lot of paper trying. Okay, we're not all geniuses...
>
> I would rather buy a book on the A470 but apparently there are none
> available, anywhere. Can some one lead me to a vendor that DEFINITELY
> has such an animal? I bought one for every camera I ever owned but
> can't find a single one for the elusive A470.
>
> Help?
My solution was to get Sony's Reader. It can hold many thousands
of eBooks, DOC and PDF files, and I've got all of may camera manuals
on one. The latest version (PRS-700) has many nice features, such
as searching, notes, annotations, text copy & paste, and a touch
sensitive screen. But because the older PRS-505 doesn't have the
touch sensitive screen, its display is a bit crisper. Their
rechargeable batteries have extremely long life because virtually
all of the battery power is to change the page being displayed.
Battery life is measured in "page turns", which are many thousands
per charge. Right now it's holding 57 PDF files, including Canon,
Fuji, Nikon and Olympus camera, lens and speedlight manuals, and a
few PDA and cell phone manuals.
Stephen Henning
<56c2342e-d251-45c4...@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Mikie <mp...@msn.com> wrote:
You can convert the manual pages to JPG's and put these on the 32MB SD
Memory Card that came with the camera. That is about all it is good
for. GB memory cards are very cheap. Then you can view these through
your camera. Only 54 pages are about taking pictures. The rest are
about stuff you do at home.
There is also the 35 page getting started document at
http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/0300000754/PSA470_GS_EN.pdf
It only has 30 pages on taking pictures.
To convert pdf pages to jpg you can use Photoshop, Photoshop Elements,
or ScreenPrint utilities.
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Pete D
Cut your A4 pages in half then tell your printer to print every other page
starting at page 2 then feed those pages back into your printer telling it
to print every other page starting at page 1, works for me.
Cheers.
Pete
Dave Cohen
That's interesting. How does the Sony Reader compare with the Amazon
thingy (Kindle or some such name). I noticed BJ's carried both, forget
the price difference.
Dave Cohen
J. Clarke
Just a comment on the Kindle but there's a new version of it coming
out on the 24th that supposedly addresses a variety of complaints by
users of the original.
Personally any docs and the like I need in portable form I carry on my
old Sony Clie. An iPhone or Blackberry or Treo should be able to do
the same.
> Dave Cohen
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ASAAR
> That's interesting. How does the Sony Reader compare with the Amazon
> thingy (Kindle or some such name). I noticed BJ's carried both, forget
> the price difference.
I haven't been able to find a Kindle to evaluate yet. It's only
available from Amazon, or at least that's what I was led to believe.
But then I've never heard of BJ's. Every time I checked, Amazon
stated that there was a waiting list that stretched out to 4, 6 or
more weeks before they'd be able to deliver any. They provided a
link to what should have been local Kindle enthusiasts that would
invite locals to demos of the product, but I never saw anything but
inane messages from people that knew nothing about the Kindle.
Amazon is hyping a new Kindle 2, but with past performance to go on,
it will probably be quite some time before the supply will be
sufficient to meet the demand.
The main difference between the Kindle and Sony's Reader is that
eBooks (mostly DRM protected) are downloaded directly to the Kindle
using a "free" wireless 3G network (Whispernet, using an AnyData
EVDO wireless modem). Apparently, even when the modem is turned
off, the Kindle still uses enough battery power to require fairly
frequent charging. Amazon says that when the modem is turned off,
you can use the Kindle for a week before it will need to be
recharged again.
Books and documents are transferred to Sony's Reader by connecting
its USB port to your computer, and its battery requirements are
extremely low. It supports PDF files fairly well, although
rendering of graphics is usually a problem unless the small font is
used for text. The Kindle's support for PDF files is ominously
considered "experimental", and if that's a big factor for why you
want one, you'd probably want to test one first with some PDF files.
Doing so for PDF and other files isn't quite as pleasant since I
believe that you have to "email" them to your Kindle, and pay Amazon
a token amount for the privilege of doing so. There's supposed to
be a way to avoid this "copying fee", but it adds to the complexity.
If you have hundreds or thousands of documents, pictures or mp3
files to transfer to the Reader, you just copy them to the Sony's
eBook Library on your computer, and then transfer aliases of the
files to appropriate Library sub-folders which can be synched to the
Reader (or to a Memory Stick or SD/SDHC card in the Reader) the next
time it's attached to the computer's USB port. One of the Kindle's
advantages is that if you are so inclined, it allows you to much
more easily subscribe to and download magazine and daily newspaper
articles.
Dave Cohen
Sony would win out. I have a TomTom device and the battery on that runs
down after 2 weeks on non-use. I thought it was defective, but
apparently not, something stays on even when turned off. Definitely
something I wouldn't want on other devices if it could be avoided.
There is another device coming out soon, plastic logic that promises to
be less fragile. The Sony accepts SD cards which is nice.
Hopefully, prices will come down.
Dave Cohen
Von Fourche
"Mikie" <mp...@msn.com> wrote in message
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>
> available, anywhere. Can some one lead me to a vendor that DEFINITELY
> has such an animal? I bought one for every camera I ever owned but
> can't find a single one for the elusive A470.
I'm with you on this. I'm ok with them putting these manuals online/PDF
to save paper and all that. But I would learn my Sony Cybershot camera
quicker if I had the manual I could thumb thru. Yes, it's nice to be able
to jump to any section with the PDF version, but computer versions are the
not the same as a real hard copy paper manual.