From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 20: 9:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC6837B42C for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D10BA18D5; Wed, 16 May 2001 20:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7D318D4; Wed, 16 May 2001 20:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:33:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell Cc: "eric k. wolven" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: digital camera In-Reply-To: <20010518114030.J55915@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There are various things in the Ports Collection. I personally use a > camera with Compact Flash memory (a Nikon CoolPix 880, which I quite > like). I insert the CF card into a PCMCIA adaptor and mount it on my > laptop as an MS-DOS file system. See > http://echunga.lemis.com/~grog/diary-nov2000.html, 10 November 2000, > for more details. I've got one of the Sony Mavica's... pull the regular ol' floppy disk out, shove into the laptop. I've got a script I execute that mounts the drive, moves all the files to the hard drive, then unmounts it so I can use the disk again. :) I can get about 15-20 good quality pic per a disk. The BEST thing about it though, is that it take instananeous pictures. You don't have to hold it still while it's grabbing the picture. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message