Computer issue:Have a Cannon already. Will adding another brand confuse computer?

[missypie]

DD wants a digital camera for Christmas. I have a Cannon that I like. Do I need to stay within the Cannon brand for the sake of my computer?....e.g. if I add software for Kodak, for example, onto the same computer that has the Cannon software, will that confuse the computer, or make it run slower or anything else bad?

[safetymom]

It wopn't cause any problems at all.

[missypie]

She's 12. I'm thinking of sticking with Cannon so if she can't figure something out, maybe I can help her. She thinks she wants to be a photographer, so the camera needs a fair number of settings. I also think she'd like something pretty small but i don't think Cannon offers one that is very small.

[jann1033]

i had kodak and canon software on my older computer and no problems...it is just like having 2 software programs...the only thing that might happen is not sure how it would download...ie the kodak was never used so i had the default/automatic downloader as the canon. you might have to open the kodak software to download with it if you want to use it

[missypie]

Hye Jann, your Edison quote is the one that my son tries to fit into all of his SAT essays!

[My2Girls66]

We have a Canon A540 and just got an A560. You can change the shutter speed, aperature and ISO on them. They are under $150. May be worth checking out. We have Canon software, Nikon View 5 and Nikon Picture Project on our computers. No problems.

[handicap18]

So long as you have hard drive space to hold all the pictures and the different software programs you have nothing to worry about.

I use a Nikon D50. I also have a Canon Powershot S30 and DW has her camera phone and some other inexpensive 3MP camera. I also have software for Nikon (Picture Project and Capture NX) as well as Adobe Photoshop Elements and Lightroom.

Each one of your family members can have a different brand camera. The computer really doesn't care. If you use a card reader then you wont have to use as much software and instead use 1 universal software program like Photoshop Elements or something like that.

[MarkBarbieri]

Not a problem for the computer. There is some benefit to using the same brand of cameras in that the controls may work in a similar fashion.