jimvore

This might be best dealt with in its own separate thread, but I've never had a lot of luck getting D1 series cameras to "talk" via FW.

 

If I'm not mistaken, you need the wall power pack for the camera to do anything when connected to the computer. I've not played with it a WHOLE lot, but it's a good starting point at least. This seems a bit strange to me given that Firewire itself can supply surprisingly large amounts of bus power(45W IIRC) but none the less if you intend to use D1 series cameras you should have the wall pack.

Thank you, I will try my power pack, just thought the camera would operate on the same voltage either battery or power pack, will try.

Why exactly did you buy a camera about to celebrate it's 20th birthday? Sure the D1X was 2001, but yippee 5.3 Mega Pixels!

For the same reason I would buy a '55 Chevy before a new one, it's about style and design. I have 5 other modern shooters, but enjoy this classic....:)

Greetings! I have a question as to the D1X, I recently grabbed a mint D1x outfit,ie; new battery,charger and lens. The question is that I never pull a CF card from any of my cameras, but use communication cables to prevent pin damage. I grabbed a firewire to usb cable for this and when hooked to my usb computer drive got an alarm saying to much power is applied to the drive and shut it down, Anyone else have this problem or is the factory cable power throttled. Thank you in advance, Jim.