From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 22:37:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2C51065676 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:37:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnmtw@lazlarlyricon.com) Received: from mailgw9.surf-town.net (mail8.surf-town.net [212.97.132.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE0C8FC1D for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mailgw9.surf-town.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 069109B5C3; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:37:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw9.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1E19B5C7; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:37:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mailgw9.surf-town.net X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 tagged_above=-999 required=7 tests=[RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1] Received: from mailgw9.surf-town.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgw9.surf-town.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id c9zpnxXFLvp0; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:37:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lazlar.kicks-ass.net (c-b486e355.09-42-6e6b7010.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [85.227.134.180]) by mailgw9.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F17D9B5CA; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:36:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C438201.2050602@lazlarlyricon.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:36:49 +0200 From: Rolf G Nielsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100706 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100718190610.90ea701e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100718190610.90ea701e.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Ames , Polytropon Subject: Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:37:29 -0000 2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Ames 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).