From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 18 5:54:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C527937B571 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:54:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA30839; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:54:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:54:29 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003181354.OAA30839@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital Cameras X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hardware In-Reply-To: <8av8th$7sp$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Nowlin wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > > > Now what I would like to know is if anyone has any experience with > > > Digital Cameras in FreeBSD that could give me some feed back on which > > > brands and models are known to work well with FreeBSD. > > > > I purchased a Kodak DC280. It takes excellent pictures (with > > great resolution) I've never tried to connect to it using the cable. I > > I have a DC240 which works beautifully with GNOME gphoto-0.4.0 on my Linux > [...] > /usr/ports/graphics/gphoto should solve the problem. I do recommend the > Kodak models for both quality and "thanks Kodak for making a product that > isn't OS-limited" value.... (gphoto also has a command-line interface > which is helpful at times.) Just forget gphoto, it's dead slow. :-) Have a look at http://www.fromme.com/ophoto/ which is a tool for FreeBSD to access the Kodak DC240 and DC280 via the USB interface. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message