Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:53:43 -0500 From: Chris <kingsqueak@kingsqueak.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD digital camera support? Message-ID: <20010219225342.A45056@daemon.kingsqueak.org> In-Reply-To: <20010218183959.D20470@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 06:39:59PM -0800 References: <3A900EB5.BBDEFFD1@centurytel.net> <20010218183959.D20470@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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You can also use the USB Sandisk SDDR-31 Compact Flash reader for about $30 from most places. Using it now, works a treat. Pop in the CF card, mount it as any other device and mv the files from it. * Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> [010219 20:05]: > On Sunday, 18 February 2001 at 10:04:37 -0800, Islandman wrote: > > I'm shopping for a new digital camera. Since I NEVER want to boot up in > > WinDoz again, what capabilities for supporting digital cameras are there > > in FreeBSD? > > I'd strongly recommend buying a camera with Compact Flash or similar > memory. You can remove the card from the camera and insert it in a > PCMCIA adaptor (cost: about $10) and mount it in a laptop as an MS-DOS > file system. If you don't have a laptop, you'll need a PCMCIA to ISA > adaptor for your machine, as well as easy access to it. > > The nice thing about this approach is that you can use normal UNIX > commands to manipulate the images. See my diary entries on the > subject in November 2000 (from memory > http://www.lemis.com/~grog/diary-nov2000.html; I'm not online at the > moment). > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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