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From: Chris <kingsqueak@kingsqueak.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD digital camera support?
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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
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