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khirsah17
14th of August 2006 (Mon), 10:54
Hello,

I was wondering if you guys could tell me a little bit about the file format that Canon uses to save its pictures. My ultimate goal is to take a random .JPG file that you could dload from the internet, transfer it onto the SD card and view it on the camera viewscreen. Any time I take a .JPG file that was not produced by my camera (or any other camera), rename it to a similar file format and put it in the right folder, my viewscreen comes up with a question mark in a little box and says "Incompatible File Format".

I did some research and found someone who claimed that Canon uses JPEG2000 file format for their pictures. So I used a program to convert to this format, but now the extension is .JP2, which is also unrecongnizable by my camera.

Am I going about this the wrong way? Is there a way to even do this? I would appreciate any help!

Jon
14th of August 2006 (Mon), 13:25
The file, for starters, needs to match the camera's standard picture sizes. It also needs to be named in accordance with the Canon (which is based on DCIM standards) naming and folder conventions. So you'd need to resize the photo and then rename it and copy it to your card using a computer card reader. All in all, it's not really worth it.