Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:26:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Patrick Hawley <phawley@ociweb.com> To: "eric k. wolven" <wyrdwulf@catskill.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: digital camera Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105172218140.8950-100000@merckx.ociweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20010518114030.J55915@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 18 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > I'm thinking of finally getting a digital camera. > > Is there one that seems to do "better" with freebsd? > > What about the software to move the pic(s) to the pc? Well, last week I bought a Canon S20 after years of thinking "Huh...I should get a digital camera." I happened to find one on eBay for $10 cheaper than the cheapest price on shopper.com, and it's been great...except my fiance and office partner are tired of seeing 100's of pix of our kitty! ;) Regarding sw, gphoto seems to be the most popular, though I was unable to get it working with my Canon, though I only tried to get it working for 15 minutes (I believe I was specifying the wrong serial port). gphoto2 (which is currently in beta) has support for USB, which will be nice. I just wanted to dump my first batch of photos on to my FreeBSD box quickly and didn't have the patience to actually get gphoto to work (which would have taken only a few mintues, so I must be a very impatient person! ;) I ended up installing s10sh, which is a nice little command line program which can be run in batch mode to pull down or delete all pix at once, or interactively to pull down specific pix...very cool app! My advice for you would be to take a look at gphoto's supported camerae and choose one of those, as gphoto seems to be a very cool app for those wanting a FreeBSD replacement for the usually included Win/Mac apps. HPH, Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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