JPEG Images and the psion

[willbuy]

It's me again.

I came across this "review" on the net:
"The software is good with one exception: JPEG support is slow. Large JPEGS, the sort your digital camera contains (yes, the CF card slot is fully compatible!), take minutes to render. There is at least one shareware software package (MBMView) on the market which discards most of the colour data when rendering JPEGS and this is at least twenty times faster. I highly recommend this if you intend to be using you PSION to help you discard camera images in the field."

Also this one:

"You can swap compact flash cards with a suitable digital camera - and send them as attachments to an email. I use a Kodak DC240. "

I am very interested to send photos back to my office as e-mail attachments. It sound like this might be possible but since I have never used a psion before I am not sure. Is this persion correct in that, if compatible, you can simply swap the FC and choose a couple of photos and send them as attachments?

As far as viewing photos, was the first reviewer correct about MBMView?

There is no type of USB adapter for the psion, correct? Because then I could connect to my current camera since it uses a different type of card.

Thank you all for reading and posting.
best regards,
Kevin

[tymbaryon]

Yes, MBMview is an excellent software and it is worthy to buy it.

However the only "problem" in switching CF cards is that you should install MBMview on C and not on D (the CF card) and this means taking away precious space from the available machine memory. And not only MBMview. In the email options you can choose between stocking your email either on C or D. Certainly there is software that helps in putting away individual email messages...
Probably you should plan carefully on how you intend to use your Psion.
Just to make it clear, Psion machines use as memory the resident hard disk like the swap file in Windows. This solution was probably implemented in order to save space in Psion machines.

[spegru]

Yes, I've done this loads of times. I take a pic on the camera, transfer it to Psion using the CF card and then view it using MBM View and email it from there. The Psion is quite tolerant of CF cards being removed/ replaced.

Not sure about MBM view being faster in monochrome, but it is almost certainly faster if installed on the C drive since this is RAM, not Flash and therefore has a faster access time.

rgds

spegru