Visiting customers and don't want to carry a laptop? Fear not, once again your digital camera comes to the rescue...

 
If your job involves making on-screen presentations to customers or clients you'll be well aware of the pain of carrying a laptop with you at all times. For those times when you can't - or don't want to - lug the laptop to a meeting why not put your digital camera to use. Carrying your presentation on a memory card could also get you out of a tight spot if you realise half-way up the motorway that your laptop's power cable is still on the kitchen top...

Of course there are limitations; you can't use all those fancy PowerPoint animations and you need a display with a composite video input (which covers most plasma screens and all data projectors), and naturally you can't make any last minute changes.

Producing a camera-based presentation is simple; PowerPoint allows you to save each slide as a JPEG (640 x 480 pixels should be plenty), then all you need to do is to rename them to a format the camera will understand (i.eDSCFXXXX.JPG with the X’s replaced by numbers) and copy them into the right folder on your memory card –for most FinePix cameras this will be called 100_FUJI (which is inside another folder called DCIM).

You'll need the AV cable supplied with the camera to connect to a television or projector, then simply switch to playback mode and scroll through the presentation slides using the usual controls.

• Pick up a cheap phono to scart connector to ensure you can attach to any TV.
• Make sure the camera recognizes the files and displays them properly before heading off.