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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:18:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Digital cameras
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907041512290.66663-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <199907042000.NAA16863@bubba.whistle.com>

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On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:

> Archie Cobbs writes:
> > I'm thinking of buying a digital camera and was wondering which
> > ones (if any) use a protocol for downloading pictures that is
> > compatible with FreeBSD -- ie, some port exists to download the
> > pictures.. or, at least, the protocol is documented somewhere..
> 
> Ah, nevermind! ..answered my own question.. if anyone else is
> interested search for the word "camera" on this page..
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/ports/graphics.html

If you're willing to spend a fair chunk of money for it, you could get
a Sony Mavica which stores its pictures as JPGs on a DOS-formatted
floppy.  We have a couple of those at work, and they work quite well,
but don't expect to be able to take rapid successive pictures.
Floppies have always been a tad slow.

One of those cameras that use the tiny flash disks probably also store
their pictures in a similar fashion, but then you'd need some kind of
reader that worked under FreeBSD.  I've never actually used one of
those yet, so I don't know.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development).
   ( http://www.freebsd.org )

   "One should admire Windows users.  It takes a great deal of
    courage to trust Windows with your data."



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