d220 digital camera and xp

**paul62** · February 23rd, 2008, 06:04 PM

Could anyone tell me if htere is a driver for my olympus d220 digital camer a that works with windows xp?

**CCT** · February 23rd, 2008, 07:04 PM

NOT, apparently, from Olympus themselves.

**Platypus** · February 23rd, 2008, 07:33 PM

As CCT says, the D-220 seems to be too old a camera to be supported any more by Olympus. It is not on their Windows XP compatibility listing:

http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/...pati/winxp.cfm

The camera was evidently originally supplied with (beyond the usual Camedia software) a Windows TWAIN driver. Presumably it was for Win9x/ME.

On Google I found one unanswered question on an imaging forum saying the software (presumably Camedia) would not transfer images under XP in compatability mode.

**CCT** · February 23rd, 2008, 07:47 PM

If someone were to use an adapter (serial x usb) would an XP based comp have any chance of seeing an older digital camera like this as a USB mass storage device?

**Platypus** · February 23rd, 2008, 08:48 PM

I doubt it - I can't see that it would comply with the device class, but I guess it could be something to try.

I read the information I found as meaning the camera needed its own device driver to be seen as a TWAIN device to use the "acquire" process in imaging software. It would seem pointless to write a TWAIN driver if the device was already a USB mass storage device.

That seemed to be a common path taken by camera manufacturers. Not being computer device manufacturers, they started out producing to their own proprietary standards, and wrote a driver to translate. Only more recently they started simply making the cameras compliant as a USB mass storage device.

**paul62** · February 24th, 2008, 07:05 AM

I tried the old software and it seems to work in xp

**Platypus** · February 24th, 2008, 07:08 AM

Do you mean an older version of Camedia? Sounds like a good result.

**paul62** · February 24th, 2008, 11:28 AM

I belierve this what Ijust tried and it works even though it does not mention windodws xp on it.

**CCT** · February 24th, 2008, 12:34 PM

Lot's of info here: (the D-220 and D-220L may be different, but I can't tell from most of the info);

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:...lnk&cd=1&gl=ca