From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jul 4 13:19: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD03F14CAE for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA66973; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:18:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:18:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Archie Cobbs Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital cameras In-Reply-To: <199907042000.NAA16863@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Archie Cobbs writes: > > I'm thinking of buying a digital camera and was wondering which > > ones (if any) use a protocol for downloading pictures that is > > compatible with FreeBSD -- ie, some port exists to download the > > pictures.. or, at least, the protocol is documented somewhere.. > > Ah, nevermind! ..answered my own question.. if anyone else is > interested search for the word "camera" on this page.. > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/graphics.html If you're willing to spend a fair chunk of money for it, you could get a Sony Mavica which stores its pictures as JPGs on a DOS-formatted floppy. We have a couple of those at work, and they work quite well, but don't expect to be able to take rapid successive pictures. Floppies have always been a tad slow. One of those cameras that use the tiny flash disks probably also store their pictures in a similar fashion, but then you'd need some kind of reader that worked under FreeBSD. I've never actually used one of those yet, so I don't know. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message