From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 17 22:44:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3b058.neo.rr.com [24.93.181.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FDD37B9A3 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:44:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA12104; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:44:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:44:41 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Nowlin To: Jay Kuri Cc: Chris , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital Cameras In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Now what I would like to know is if anyone has any experience with > > Digital Cameras in FreeBSD that could give me some feed back on which > > brands and models are known to work well with FreeBSD. > > I purchased a Kodak DC280. It takes excellent pictures (with > great resolution) I've never tried to connect to it using the cable. I I have a DC240 which works beautifully with GNOME gphoto-0.4.0 on my Linux box. The Kodak transfer protocol is pretty easy and (unlike most camera manufacturers) Kodak is being quite open about how to use their cameras on non-MS products... (Except for their proprietary picture compression method found on a few of their cameras -- just set your camera to JPEG format, and the problem's solved.) I haven't tried it on FBSD, but if you can get GNOME running (?), it should work right out of the box. Or just compile gphoto ......duh....never mind... (a quick look in ports) /usr/ports/graphics/gphoto should solve the problem. I do recommend the Kodak models for both quality and "thanks Kodak for making a product that isn't OS-limited" value.... (gphoto also has a command-line interface which is helpful at times.) --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message