Big digital camera OOPS! Need help, please.
 

Somehow when I was in London, the button on the top got turned to video so more than half my photos can't be downloaded to Photobucket.

I tried to download them there as videos but it wouldn't work. How do I get these pics changed to something like a jpeg format or gif?

Should I take the SD cards to a photo place & just have them put on CDs? Will I then be able to put them on Photobucket.

Sorry but please speak slowly. I'm not real good at this stuff.

Can't be done. Give up and go back to London, Make sure the right button is pushed.

Degas is not correct. I have worked with photo and video capture software to present in court cases which allows you to select specific frames from video and turn them into a digital photo. It is not a household software/hardware item but you can ask around at video production companies or professional photographers and they can get photos off of your video. The down side is that the photos will not be as sharp from a video capture as a still photo would be.

jorr, don't be a royal kill-joy. Perfect excuse for Carrybean to go back to London!

If you know someone who is computer-savvy, they might have the software to do still captures from the video clips.

As Jorr says, the quality will not be as good as if you had taken still shots, but you will have photos.

This site lists a couple free video decompiler programs for use with Windows:

http://tinyurl.com/3c4lek

Video has resolution of about 720 x 480 at best, unless your camera has high-definition video capture. Which will give you pictures of about 0.35MP, in camera speak. Keep that in mind before you spend money to convert them.

LOL, I would take the advice of degas, obviously a light hearted joke, but it sounds as good as any excuse to get to go back to London :)

Carrybean, we had some digital photos that we wanted to convert to disc and took them to a very good camera shop in our town..these people live and breathe photography and film..we got everything put on disc but perhaps they (the ones in your town) will be able to figure out something for you..if none of them post on Fodors :)
Worst case scenario, you can make video copies..
You must be a Smarty, talking slowly about camera stuff still doesn't help me ((F))

There are some cameras that can isolate a frame of a video as a still picture within the camera - no need for external software. Check to see if yours is one.

Yes, I think I need to go back to London. The pictures look just like stills but seem to be in a video format.

Thanks for the help. I'll take the SD cards to our work computer guy & if he can't do anything, I'll take them to the photo place & see what they can do.

Before you spend a lot of money, test one. I think you'll find it's not worth it. The resolution will be very poor.

Carrybean, sorry if I mislead you. No evil intent here!

Degas, does this mean you haven't bought me a first class ticket back to London? :((

Carrybean, I did, but seem to have misplaced the tickets. Let me get back to you.

Hi there Carrybean, I hope you better luck receiving those airline tickets from degas than I did when he said "the check was in the mail" when I invested some money for one of his schemes..er I mean inventions. I will assume degas doesn't know that envelopes need to have the proper postage put on them. Best to think he is a bit lax regarding postal rules than to believe that he would con one, doncha think?

My DH did this also on a recent fishing trip. Six of his C & R fishies were possibly lost forever. I opened the video in the HP photo software that we have on the computer (it may have come with an HP phot printer we have). It will capture the frame you want and allow you to print the picture. The picture looked quite good when printed. We were not able to save that capture as a photo though. We still have to save it as a video.

Degas, just post the record locator. :)

An update: I took the SD thingies to the computer guy at work. He managed to make them jpegs but the quality is bad so I'll just chalk this up as another dumb thing that happened. Dang it.

HP Image Zone allows me to select an image that I can print. I am able to stop the video an selct a frame to print. I thought the picture was good.