Mini Camera Keychain

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First I have to say if you use you ubs port for anything else, make sure you have the disc for that item, if you install this camera, you will need to reinstall the disk when you use the other items in the ubs port. If you don't have backup disc do not install this if you ever want to use the other item again. I don't know if this will mess anything up, I just know this worked on my compaq presario windows xp that is all I know. If you do this and it screws up your computer, don't blame me I just know it worked on mine. But every time I want to use my web cam I have to reinstall the disc. so if you still want to do it try this

go to my computer

right click on the disk drive with the disk in choose explore

once there you will see folders click on driver folder

click on set up it will ask to install and install it. it told me to restart my computer but I didn't and it still worked. It will change the fancy program to a generic one but you can now see the crappy photos. yes, mine were not worth the trouble of this so this is your warning. I have to say, I tried it in more light and for a $10 camera it worked pretty good, just have lots of light. Hope this helps

Crystal Digital

Dual Smart

Genesis Logic

Innovage Outdoor Sports Mini Digital Camera

L'espion Mini Spy Digital Camera

Mini Digital Camera

Philips Keychain Digital Camera

Vivitar mini digital camera

And probably dozens more.

I recently bought one of these cameras only to find that the webcam

feature did not work. However, a friend also bought one and his

worked fine. when I tried my camera with his drivers it also worked

properly.

What is Yawcam?

Yawcam is a shortening for Yet Another WebCAM software, and that's exactly what it is ;-)

More precise Yawcam is a webcam software for windows written in java. The main ideas for Yawcam are to keep it simple and easy to use but to include all the usual features.

After nearly losing my "Operation Manual" I typed it out and saved it to my computer. Enclosed is the text (without pictures) of this manual. It is from my "Vivitar Mini Digital Camera". I hope it helps some of you.

Bought my mini digital camera on a whim. I figure at most I waste $10.

I was surprised that the images are this good for only $10. Of course the

so-called view-finder is a complete joke. They could have used the wasted space

for more memory.

From reading the posts here I can't believe people would get this upset over $10!

Looks like the distribution channels were flooded with bad drivers.

Mine works fine and I have other cameras, printers, scanners and modems

on the USB port. The camera and software also works as an image source for

Microsoft Word.

The pictures are pretty good. Took some in a darkened bar, in my apartment, and outside during the day. Expectedly, the outside ones are the best. The camera is a fun product, and for the price not something to get in a tizzy over.

When you install the drivers from the CD, you see a program called MY CAMERA on the desktop, and Windows XP still doesn't recognize the camera and MY CAMERA says "Cannot Connect To Camera". Go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall Camera Driver to work from a clean slate.

Why didn't it work? If you explore the CD (right click on it then select explore) and look in the Drivers folder, the Setup program in there is bad. You can however still install the drivers without the Setup program (but don't because the .inf file in there is also bad! which I will get to in a second.) You could get the drivers to install by using the Windows Driver Installer Wizard that pops up when you plug in the camera, and telling it too look for the drivers on the CD (I think you select "No, not at this time" when it asks about finding drivers online, then after that tell it to search the CD). This will install the drivers and you can get pictures off you camera with MY CAMERA... *BUT* you can't use it as a webcam with live feed to your PC. This is because the .inf file in the Drivers folder is bad. Yes... this camera came with a CD that has 2 (TWO!) bad files. It is amazing that Walgreen's is selling something this unprofessional, but they are. BTW - Another way commonly used to install drivers is to go into device manager, select the device (it should have a yellow questionmark icon) then right-click on it and select "Update" and manually find an appropriate .inf file, but I digress.

DON'T use your CD for a driver source. DO use the drivers Ron posted on 02 Sep 2007 (MR97310c Mini Digital Camera Drivers Version 2.03 All Functions work.zip).

All the files in there work, so you can run the Setup program and use your camera as a webcam with live feed. It also installs MY CAMERA. To view live feed with MY CAMERA, click on PC-Camera Mode then click on Preview.

Ron also mentioned YawCam as a good webcam viewer. Maybe I just don't have the right settings in YawCam, but for me the feed in MY CAMERA in much more smooth than than it is in YawCam. Maybe that is because the programs serve different purposes. YawCam is an internet application, MY CAMERA just allows you to take still pictures from the live feed.

And Alma posted a nice link on 25 Dec 2007. That installer installs all drivers correctly too! However, as mentioned before, this camera comes under many names. Alma's link takes you to a site where this camera is published under the name Jazz rather than Vivitar. The ones with different names often come with different software. So instead of coming with MY CAMERA it comes with PCCam. PCCam does not have as smooth of feed as MY CAMERA, but.. it can record video whereas MY CAMERA can only capture still images from the live feed. I wonder what software the thousands of other names this camera is sold under came with.

I do not know if the CD's that came with this camera under different names are all bad. I know the CD that came with this camera under the name Phillips is bad, so I would assume most are (Walgreen's sold the Phillips brand too).

But I had to place an additional twist on the installation process. Here is the process that brought me success (on Windows XP): I used the files that Ron provided, told Windows to install the drivers, and then used the setup.exe to install the "My Camera" software separately. (In earlier attempts, when I simply let the setup program install the the drivers, the SW would not recognize the camera. But this two-part process worked.)

5) Go through the Add Hardware wizard. Tell it to look for the driver in the unzipped driver folder from step 2. (The wizard gave an easy enough walk through. My camera was listed there with a yellow question mark. I'm not sure how it was labeled then, but it is now named MR97310 CIF Dual Mode Camera. I don't know if that applies to everybody.)

7) BTW: I next went back to the Add Hardware control panel, and found that it recognized my camera as being connected. (You probably don't need to do this, but I thought it was worth mentioning). But at this point I still found no way to access the camera. So, on to the next step--

9) Hooray! Done. Open the software, download your pics. NOTE: I think I actually left my camera plugged in the whole time, but I don't think it matters, after the Add Hardware process is done. You may have varying results. I have Windows XP.

In summary: Man, what a screwed up install process, but I am pleased to finally have figured it out. Great thanks to everyone who provided constructive help in this forum. This is a nifty little camera. Of course it's essentially a toy, given the low resolution available and lack of flash, but it's well worth 10 bucks, just for fun -- if you can get the #!$@ software installed! Good luck.

I then tried saving pics one at a time (the single disk icon), and noticed the filename the computer automatically put in looked weird, so I picked a sensible filename (extension .bmp) and it actually saved!

Even after loading the files that work (see post from Douglas on 13 Jan 2008) my computer really wasn't finding the camera. Looking in the Control Panel > Add Hardware it didn't show a camera hooked up, even though the computer made the sound when I plugged it in. Somehow I thought to try another USB port and Bingo!.

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