Re: sco-list: Re: USB digital camera

From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 09/06/03

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    On Fri, Sep 05, 2003, Bela Lubkin wrote:
    ...
    >Even this may be a bit of wishful thinking. _Some_ USB cameras present
    >themselves as disks; some present themselves as scanners, or other
    >oddities of the USB spec; and some are entirely proprietary. I believe
    >there do exist USB cameras which will "just work" with OSR507; it may
    >even be a large percentage of all USB camera models. But not all. I
    >personally haven't tried this with any camera.

    My solution to digital cameras has been to buy USB flash card readers
    appropriate to the camera (e.g. SmartMedia), and I have a PMCMCIA adapter
    for my laptop that works well under Linux. The readers are cheap
    (generally under $20US retail), and work on every system I've tried them on
    as a USB storage device. I have to say that I've only done this on various
    flavours of Linux ranging from Caldera (now SCO) eDesktop 2.4 through SuSE
    8.2, and Apple's OS X.

    When I'm in the office, I usually suck pictures in on an Apple G4 because
    I'm lazy and it's almost totally automatic. I use the PCMCIA SmartMedia
    adapter on the laptop, mostly because it was the first thing I bought to do
    this, and it's also the smallest.

    Bill 

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