Re: VMS and digital cameras

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Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:13:39 GMT

In article <1104479939.0ab879c5729dae4bff47e53a07ea484f@teranews>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes:
>Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
>> I don't know much about digital cameras yet. Am I right in assuming
>> that USB is the de-facto standard?
>
>USB is standard, as well as the DOS FAT disk format. The Camera presents
>itself as a FAT formatted hard disk drive.

Not all. I bought my wife the Canon EOS 20D for her birthday/Christmas
present. Its configuration menu has 2 settings for communications: one
is called Normal (?) and the other PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol). I
have plugged many a digital camera into my PowerBook and the camera ap-
pears as a USB drive. The only way to get files from the Canon EOS 20D
is to set the communications mode to PTP and then I can import picutres
using iPhoto. I prefer to have the camera show up as a USB drive so I
can copy only pictures that I want. iPhoto wants to suck the contents
of the entire flash card (2GB but that is no were exhausted yet) to the
iPhoto photo library.

Note: iPhoto and PTP is the documented transfer mechanism in the Canon
manual. 

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