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Comparing the PTPdrive against different components in Windows XP & 2003
'PTPdrive' application
'PTPdrive Settings' application for configuring the PTPdrive
'Filename Format Builder' application
Drive letter mapping
Shell integration
Comparing the PTPdrive against different components in Windows XP & 2003
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PTPdrive
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Scanner and Camera Wizard
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Windows Explorer
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Drive letter mapping
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Fully customizable picture file names based on the camera/picture metadata
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Access to JPG pictures, AVI movies
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Access to RAW (NEF) pictures
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Access to JPG and RAW (NEF) pictures when camera is configured to produce both for each picture taken
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Access to pictures which have the same file name but are located in different folders on the camera (typically happens when there is more than 1000 pictures in the camera)
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'PTPdrive' application
- Lists all free/unused drive letters, indicates which drive is already mapped to a camera.
- Lists all PTP mode digital cameras connected to the computer.
- Allows map/disconnect a drive letter to/from a camera:
- Camera can be mapped to a drive letter only once.
- Trial version allows only one camera to be mapped to a drive letter at once.
- Registered version allows multiple different cameras to be mapped to different drive letters at the same time.
- Offers launching PTPdrive configuration settings dialog.
- Enables ad-hoc overriding of the global picture name format for each drive, applicable to the drive being currently mapped (not changing the global setting).
- Trial version shows the limits and counters.
- Registered version shows the registration details.
'PTPdrive Settings' application
- Allows setting following parameters:
- Language of the PTPdrive product.
- Location and size of the PTPdrive cache, where temporary files with partially transferred pictures are stored.
- Global picture name format with option to change it.
- Collecting diagnostic data.
- Option to re-register the PTPdrive as a handler for Camera Connected event.
- Shows the version of the PTPdrive.
- Offers checking if a newer version of the PTPdrive is available on the Internet.
- Allows entering of a registration key to unlock the trial version.
'Filename Format Builder' application
- Offers intuitive way of building the picture filename format.
- Allows building the filename using picture and camera metadata:
- Original filename (full or partial name)
- Counter with configurable number of digits
- Date and time when a picture was taken, selectable in various formats
- Camera name
- Image width
- Image length
All the above metadata are substituted with real data from the pictures at the time the camera is mapped to a drive letter and file list is populated. The original filenames are not physically changed in the camera.
The final filename can contain user-defined strings and metadata, in any combination. The whole filename can be converted to lowercase, uppercase, or left as is. The window of the Filename Format Builder is resizable to accommodate large amount of metadata items selected and/or text entered.
- Supports drag & drop editing.
- In real-time shows how the final filename would look like.
Drive letter mapping
- PTPdrive maps PTP mode digital camera to a local drive in Windows, allowing any application to access pictures in the camera, including command-line and scripts based.
- Offers Read-Only access to the pictures with option to delete the pictures. No Write access allowed because the PTP protocol does not support it.
- Sets the volume label of the mapped PTP camera to '<camera name>@ PTPdrive', eg. 'D90 @ PTPdrive' for Nikon D90. The trial version of the PTPdrive appends '(TRIAL)' text to the end of the volume label.
- Does not allow changing the volume label, it is Read-Only as well.
- Shows 'PTPDRIVEFS' as the file system name of the PTPdrive mapped drives.
- Offers several ways how to map a camera to a drive letter:
- Via 'Camera Connected' event. When a camera is connected to the computer, the system shows up an 'Camera connected' window where the PTPdrive is listed
- Manually running the PTPdrive application and selecting the camera
- Through camera's context menu in the Windows Explorer. See Windows Shell integration for more details.
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Windows Shell integration
- Extends context menu of the mapped drive in Windows Explorer by adding "Disconnect PTP drive" menu item to terminate drive letter mapping:
- Extends context menu of the camera in Windows Explorer by adding:
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"Map as PTP drive..." menu item to map this camera to a drive letter (if the camera is not mapped yet).
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"Already mapped as V:" disabled menu item to let you know the mapping is already done.
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- Adds a 'PTPdrive' property page to the mapped drive's property pages in Windows Explorer:
- Lists all root WIA (PTP) properties of the camera
- Shows trial limits or registration details
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Features
