Sony Camcorder Still Image Problem USB vs. Firewire

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 06:07:01 -0800, jabloomf1230
<jabloomf1230@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Has anyone else noticed this problem? If you download still images from a
>Sony TRV460's memory stick via USB, you get the correct resolution of 640 by
>480. However, if you download the same still images from the TRV460 by
>Firewire, you get files that have a resolution of 360 by 240, which not so
>coincidentally is one half of the DV resolution of 720 by 480. None of the
>settings on the camcorder (fine vs. standard, frame vs. field) have any
>effect on the resolution. Interestingly enough, the jpg files downloaded via
>firewire are only 15 to 30KB, as opposed to the normal size of around 150KB.
>My guess is that there is a bug in the Windows XP WIA driver that is not
>allowing it to read the EXIF header information in the camera's jpg files
>correctly. I'm running XP SP2 on a brand new PC. Has anyone else seen this
>behavior with this or other model Sony digital camcorders?

Actually, I have been trying to get a 720x480 resolution frame capture
via firewire. I was told the limitation was my Hi8 camcorder (TRV330)
but when I tried to do the same with a MiniDV camcorder (TRV18) I
still get the same 360x240 resolution. So I'm back to thinking it's a
Windows capture limitation, too.