From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Nov 9 17:31:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 898CF37B416 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1060 invoked by uid 100); 10 Nov 2001 01:31:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15340.33645.444539.551484@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:31:25 -0600 To: "ecmsl Last Name" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: digital camera advice ? In-Reply-To: <200111100008.fAA08tn28191@mail22.bigmailbox.com> References: <200111100008.fAA08tn28191@mail22.bigmailbox.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ecmsl Last Name types: > Before buying a digital camera, I must choose one that is fully > supported on FreeBSD. Lack of USB drivers often sux. All the slots > are full: I can't add a video capture card. I don't need very high > resolution for large prints, but only 800x600 (good pictures without > too much noise) for web pages and a few postcard-sized prints. > If someone has a cheap digital camera working on FreeBSD, thanks for > advice. This question comes up fairly often on -questions. The best solution seems to be buying a camera that uses compact flash, then get a supported USB CF reader. That completely avoids the problem of support for the camera, allowing you a wider choice of cameras. Personally, I like Olympus cameras, which use smart media cards. There are supported readers for that as well, but they tend to be a bit more expensive than the CF readers. In both cases - or if you want to connect the camera directly - you can find lists of things that are known to work with FreeBSD in the -questions archives. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message