Transfer HP sd digital pics to Nikon coolpix SDHD card...please help

Bigboy68

New member
Please help me I just bought my wife the Coolpix 3500 for Christmas and want to move her 170 digital pictures taken with an HP photosmart (2gb SD card formated on the hp camera) to the Nikon coolpix so she can see the older pictures on the new card that is in Nikon format. I dont know how to make them compatable...but I'm sure someone out there can help me...thanks :D
 

Bigboy68

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they are in jpg format but the directory on the old card says 100HP437 and pics are labeled HPIMxxx (numbers) where as on the Nikon card the directories are 100NIKON and the pics are labeled DCIMxxx (numbers) I tried to change the HP directory to the same format as the Nikon but it still says no data found. I think it has to do with other files in the root directory that Nikon puts on the card.... This worked in past changing Fuji directories to Nikon but does not seem to work with HP...How do you the Nikon to recognize the HP files...thats what I am asking
 

Bigboy68

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but I already have the HP pics on the pc and a new 8gb SDHD card in the Nikon with 16 pictures taken with the new camera. When I transfer the saved jpg files from the PC to the Nikon card it says no image information for the jpgs transfered onto the card but still sees the ones taken by the camera ok....
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
but I already have the HP pics on the pc and a new 8gb SDHD card in the Nikon with 16 pictures taken with the new camera. When I transfer the saved jpg files from the PC to the Nikon card it says no image information for the jpgs transfered onto the card but still sees the ones taken by the camera ok....
Your new camera probably won't display pictures that you transfer onto the SD card from your old camera because the new camera did not create those particular image files. I don't know of any way around this.
 

weebee

Senior Member
Are you trying to move them into the folder generated by the Nikon camera? Have tried to create a folder on the SD card just for the pics from the HP camera to be stored on? But I think HF is right about the nikon not being able to view non-nikon generated pictures.
 

Bigboy68

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Thanks guys. I was just hoping that we could view the older HP pictures on the Nikon...but alas...no soap...Happy New Year to all
 

480sparky

Senior Member
As I was changing the copyright info on my D600, I thought I'd check to see if the images I took last night could be viewed on my other D600. They can. So at least withing the same model you should be able to view the images.
 

weebee

Senior Member
I moved my card from my Nikon S3500 to my D3100 because it is a 16 gig. The D3100 made its own folder. So there are two folders in it now. One for the S3500. And the D3100.
 

Patrick M

Senior Member
Try with just one HP pic. On your PC, Make a copy then Rename it to something like DCIMxxx where xxx is the next available numbers on you Coolpix. Copy the newly renamed pic to the nikon card, in the 100NIKON folder
 
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