Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:19:02 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Robert Ames <robertames@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20100718171902.GA83380@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <SNT131-w335E72CF3412699FC8F564C9BE0@phx.gbl> References: <SNT131-w335E72CF3412699FC8F564C9BE0@phx.gbl>
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On Sun 2010-07-18 12:21:42 UTC-0400, Robert Ames (robertames@hotmail.com) wrote: > If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point > and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine > via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably > MS-DOS based) filesystem? > > Please CC me on responses as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. Any camera that can act as a USB "mass storage device" should basically be plug-and-play in FreeBSD. Once such a camera is switched on it will behave essentially the same as a USB card reader, and you can you mount the flash memory card using mount_msdos. This web page shows how: http://www.freebsddiary.org/card-reader.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass-storage_device_class There are some cameras (eg. my Kodak C1013) that support Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) over USB, instead of acting as a mountable mass storage device. For PTP-only cameras you can use gPhoto (graphics/gphoto2 in Ports) to copy the images and videos to your PC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPhoto I believe F-Spot (graphics/f-spot) also supports PTP cameras. Another option (for both types of cameras) is of course to use a USB card reader, removing the flash memory card from the camera each time you want to access your images. It's somewhat cumbersome to do this each time, although it's good to have a card reader anyway in emergencies when the camera's batteries have inevitably gone flat. Good luck, Regards Andrew
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