Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:36:49 +0200 From: Rolf G Nielsen <rnmtw@lazlarlyricon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Ames <robertames@hotmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD Message-ID: <4C438201.2050602@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <20100718190610.90ea701e.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <SNT131-w335E72CF3412699FC8F564C9BE0@phx.gbl> <20100718190610.90ea701e.freebsd@edvax.de>
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2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -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? > > Let me first make sure that I answer correctly: I do interpret your > question about a "point and shoot digital camera" as a question > regarding a photo camera primarily, not a movie camera. I hope > that's correct. > > Nearly all cameras work - either by accessing the FAT file system > on the card (or internal memory), or by PTP commands - both should > be standard, and some cameras can even be switched from one to the > other standard. > > I own the following (digital) cameras, all working with FreeBSD > (list position indicates quality, quite): > - Canon PowerShot S3 IS > - Kodak EasyShare CX6330 > - HP PhotoSmart M407 > - Mustek MDC 3500 > - Aiptec Pencam (AEG Snap 300) > > Basically, you can use nearly ANY camera with FreeBSD. It's just > important that at least ONE of the existing access standards is > supported by the camera - USB direct storage access or PTP > functionality. > > (I'm concentrating on USB cameras here, allthough Firewire based > cameras should also work, but I don't own any, so I can't be more > precise about this interface.) > > There's also a workaround you should know about: If the camera > does NOT allow you to access its files through the camera, you > often can eject a SD or CF card. Many PCs today include readers > for those media. And if the reader complies to USB standards, it > can be used with FreeBSD. > > > My Casio Exilim EX-S12 works perfectly, and identifies itself as a USB Mass Storage device, i.e. it gets a daX device node in /dev. I used to have an Olympus SP-500UZ, which also worked perfectly as a USB Mass Storage device. Neither of those are current models, but I doubt that either Casio or Olympus have stopped supporting USB Mass Storage (IIRC the Casio can be set to either USB Mass Storage or PTP).
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