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Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - rapayn1 - 01-27-2008
Was doing some DEEP cleaning and ran across some old CDs that have Kodak DC40 pictures backed up to them. The problem is that nothing I have seems to want to open the files now. These go back to 1998. Very small files - about 84KB to 132KB - seems to be the range. I'm running OS 10.5.1 on an Intel iMac with 4GB of RAM. iPhoto won't open the pictures. GraphicConverter won't. Quicktime won't. No web browser opens them. Photoshop won't open them, and neither will Apple's Preview. What OSX application (freeware, shareware or commercial payware) can I use that will allow me to open these files and convert them to something like JPEG, TIFF, PICT, GIF, etc? Everything that I have seen seems to require OS 7, 8 or 9, and, and there is no classic support anymore on the latest and greatest Apple computers running Leopard.
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - rapayn1 - 01-27-2008
When I do a get info, it simply says that the file is a Kodak Digital Camera document. There is no actual file extension.
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - BigGuynRusty - 01-27-2008
The Mac didn't have "Extensions" back before OSX, they had internal flags called "FileType", and "Creator", cool idea that Apple gave up due to industry pressure.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/products/ekn007609.jhtml
BGnR
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - mattkime - 01-27-2008
I'd try graphic converter.
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - enrico7300 - 01-27-2008
I think GraphicConverter was already tried. How about Photoshop? Of course that's a very pricey option.
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - enrico7300 - 01-27-2008
You could drag one to TextEdit and see what the header says is in the file. Then you could change the file extension to force it to open with preview or GraphicConverter?
Strangely enough, dragging and dropping onto an application has sometimes opened files that simply using the Open dialog box didn't. Hinky.
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - rapayn1 - 01-27-2008
Keep the tips coming. Tried dragging to TextEdit. That did not work. I got a bunch of cyrillic characters when I did that. GraphicConverter was already tried and it did not open the files. When I use GraphicConverter I get the following:
"Unknown file format"
"The file "Image 1" is broken, the format is unknown or it isn't a graphics file. So, GraphicConverter can't open it. "
Then it goes on to give me a dump of the datafork of the file. There is an option to click on the "Try RAW Import" but when I do that I still get nothing but a grayscale top 33% of the image, and then all black for the remainder of the where the image should be in the window. Weirder still is that just listing the files on the CD or dragged off of the CD to the desktop, I can see the images albeit just the large icon of the image. Some images are of my daughter who would have been 4 at the time. However, with the picture being about 0.25" x 0.25", it is not print worthy (if I even could print) or worth sharing with others. :-) I just went back to GraphicConverter's older version 6.0 and I can now see the pictures in the browser mode (about 1.0" x 1.0"), but when I double-click on the image (to get it bigger), I can't open the file.
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - The UnDoug - 01-27-2008
assuming there's no chance of nudity in the pix, can you post one online or e-mail it to one of us to post? You can private meddage me, and I'd be happy to post it so we can all try to open it.
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - Pat - 01-27-2008
Possibly Graphic Converter in OS 8.6 - 9.2, NOT OSX.
Some info:
"First off, although a DC40/50 kdc file is really a tiff file just like the DC120 files, it does not adhere to the tiff specification to the same extent as the DC120 does. This means that standard tiff reading software will most likely choke on a DC40/50 file. This is not really a problem for me as I have a custom tiff reading library that I can use to read DC40/50 kdc files.
The most serious problem with DC40/50 files is that the main image data is compressed with a Kodak proprietary compression algorithm called RADC. The details of how this algorithm works are not available (if they are, someone tell me where). I know there have been attempts to reverse engineer the algorithm, but none of these attempts have resulted in any working code, yet. I am hopeful that eventually this problem will be solved and all of those of you who have a DC40/50 will be able to use them with non-redmond OS's someday. "
Re: Kodak DC40 Camera Help Needed - rapayn1 - 01-27-2008
UnDoug,
I doubt there is any nudity (that would be the box of 8mm camcorder tapes). ;-) JUST KIDDING. :-) However, I'm going to search around for OS 9 discs and then load up my Lombard Powerbook G3 with that (it has Panther on it right now) or an old Cube (both Cubes are currently running Tiger) and see if using GraphicConverter on one of those will do the trick. Maybe I'll even find the proprietary Kodak software that I would need to convert the files. I was hoping for an OSX solution without having to go into creating a dual-boot computer or OS 9 exclusive machine for this function, but I guess I have to do what I have to do. If all of that fails, I will certainly upload a file or two to you UnDoug.