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Strangways 
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 Posted: 10 July 2022 at 17:24 |
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If nobody else can help, I don't mind waiting, and I truly appreciate your help!
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neilt3
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Posted: 10 July 2022 at 20:46 |
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I have the original discs for the RD-175 that I could copy and let you have .
IIRC though you had to set the card up in camera with the cable connecting them . Rather than just formatting a card in the PC . I might be able to copy my current card and you could try transfering it to a card in a PC ? I'm on holiday at the moment so it will be a week or so before I can do anything . The software only worked on Windows XP and earlier plus the then current Mac , plus you needed the correct cable and a PC old enough to have the fittings . I do as I keep an antique PC for running film scanners and these cameras . |
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Strangways
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Posted: 10 July 2022 at 20:58 |
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I appreciate your help, Neil. Someone else in the forum was able to supply me with the software that can process the raw files, as well as I believe communicate with the camera, if I had the correct SCSI setup, which I don't. That is indeed the only way to format a card, but someone was able to make that step unnecessary by creating an exact image of a card, a byte-by-byte duplicate, that could be written to a CF card, and it was posted at the site below. There were both 160 MB and 256 MB card images. The links are now dead, so I was hoping someone had saved it, along with the EaseUs software that was known to work.
http://thecameracollectors.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-clone-minolta-rd-175-cards.html |
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neilt3
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Posted: 10 July 2022 at 21:17 |
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The software I use to import off my CF card I use in the camera ( via an adapter ) is Picajet , free to download from here ; https://www.picajet.com/en/index.php?page=featuresit converts the Minolta RAW to a standard format to process in any image editor .
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neilt3
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Posted: 10 July 2022 at 21:24 |
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What are you using for memory in your camera , is it a CF card in the adapter or the original big bulky harddrive ?
I'll see if I can duplicate my card onto another card and let you know how I get on . I'm m not sure if it would be the same as a cloned card . |
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Strangways
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Posted: 10 July 2022 at 22:44 |
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I'm trying to use a small, older CF card in a PCMCIA adapter. A basic file copy would not work, it would have to be cloned image, which is why Easeus Todo Backup had been recommended for that function.
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neilt3
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Posted: 11 July 2022 at 00:14 |
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If someone can explain ( in simple terms ) how to clone a card and share it , I can do that no problem .
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neilt3
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Posted: 18 July 2022 at 08:57 |
Did you get any further with this? |
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Strangways
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Posted: 10 September 2022 at 23:51 |
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I managed to find a copy of "Easeus Todo Backup" from the time that TheCameraCollector site got things working. So it should just be a matter of installing the free version and creating a sector-by-sector backup of a working card, saving it as a .PDB file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nUTEu5BbRHX3XgdbxC4k25G9RX4F4oNN/view?usp=sharing |
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Zeek
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Posted: 05 March 2023 at 15:56 |
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Just so it isn't completely lost to time (and this topic still shows up on the first page of Google), a friend put together a more modern guide for accessing the RD-175. Both of us happened to get this camera at the same time, and worked through getting it working.
https://paulschow.com/posts/rd-175/ The most important thing, though, is a better default card image (which is uploaded onto archive.org; I am still thankful when I reached out to the admin of the NikonWeb site who still happened to have the old image from cameracollector to get us both going initially). Paul was able to find a few more undocumented button combinations, but neither of us know what they're for. They're detailed on the blogpost if anyone happens to know. |
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Howard_S
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Posted: 20 April 2024 at 00:22 |
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A question I have, and they don't appear to be documented in the manuals nor on Paul's blog, is: what does the MAX EXP button press do?
 The manuals I have seen do not have this marked on views of the top plate. |
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michelb
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Posted: 20 April 2024 at 01:10 |
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Page 29 of the instruction manual:
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Howard_S
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Posted: 20 April 2024 at 10:52 |
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I did not see that, thanks! You can see the labelling on the body happened after the manual went to press ...
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