Walgreens provides access to consumer goods and services and pharmacy, health and wellness services in America through its retail drugstores, Walgreens Health Services division and Walgreens Health and Wellness division. Walgreens Health Services offers pharmacy patients and prescription drug and medical plans through Walgreens Mail Service Inc., Walgreens Home Care Inc., Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy LLC and SeniorMed LLC (a pharmacy provider to long-term care facilities). Walgreens Health and Wellness division includes Take Care Health Systems. Walgreens has 7,733 drugstores as of June 30, 2011.
One such product is the Walgreens Digital Camera. The camera, which I got as a gift has a resolution of 5.1 MP, 4X Digital Zoom, 1.5'' LCD Display, built in flash and built in memory.
The image quality is good, but the LCD Display provided is of poor quality. It can be just used for getting the outline of the picture you are capturing.
The camera comes at a very low cost, around 30 USD (US Dollars) which is equivalent to 1500 - 1600 INR. (Indian Rupees).
But the problem is retrieving the images captured. According to the information booklet and the website, the
photos taken with the digital camera can be retrieved only at the Walgreens outlet, i.e. one has to depend on the company to retrieve the photos. The stores are available in US alone, hence the camera might be useless for people outside US( United States).
The low cost of the camera is thus recovered as printing cost .
A brief look at some facts ....
Pricing ..
Camera features and conditions ....
When I got the camera and used it for the first time, I was shocked on how to retrieve the images. Personally, I am a user who lives in India, hence, unable to avail the services of a Walgreens retail outlet.
But soon I found out a solution,
I examined the connector port and found it very similar to that of USB Flash Drive ( Pen Drive).
Now I will get you through some steps which will enable one to access the photos in the camera without even going to a WALGREENS company outlet !
Just go to a nearby electronic shop and get a USB to USB cable ie it has the male connectors at one end and female connector pins at the other end, something given like the one below.
Just remove the metal shield at one end as indicated in the picture below ...
The low cost of the camera is thus recovered as printing cost .
A brief look at some facts ....
Pricing ..
Camera features and conditions ....
When I got the camera and used it for the first time, I was shocked on how to retrieve the images. Personally, I am a user who lives in India, hence, unable to avail the services of a Walgreens retail outlet.
But soon I found out a solution,
I examined the connector port and found it very similar to that of USB Flash Drive ( Pen Drive).
Now I will get you through some steps which will enable one to access the photos in the camera without even going to a WALGREENS company outlet !
Just go to a nearby electronic shop and get a USB to USB cable ie it has the male connectors at one end and female connector pins at the other end, something given like the one below.
Just remove the metal shield at one end as indicated in the picture below ...
After removing the metal shield from one side, the USB cable will look somewhat like this, and you will also
get a rectangular strip which is used for providing the correct spacing while a device is to be plugged to the port.
Cable after the USB Shield is removed......
I had mentioned earlier about, the white rectangular strip .. Just get that strip into the camera port as shown .
The camera can now be easily connected to a PC/Laptop and the camera will function as a USB Flash Drive ( Hence no additional drivers are required.). The LCD display of the camera will indicate it with a message 'USB' with the symbol.
After connecting the camera to PC
The computer will recognize it as a flash drive ..
The USB to USB cable costs less than a dollar (around 40 INR).
Enjoy taking photos .. retrieve them, print them, as you wish without spending more ....
Here are a few of my clicks. . .
After copying the captured images, you can remove the usb cable from the camera and the display might flash something like this.
It will give an option
-Or to format the memory by pressing the DEL. key.
It is advisable to format the memory each time after copying, since the camera has the capability to hold 50 photos at a time.
Enjoy !!
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