From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 16:12: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB62D37B41B for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:11:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5338B786E4; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:41:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:41:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jim Freeze Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "H. Wade Minter" Subject: Re: Need Help with Olympus/Nikon Digital Camera - umass0 device Message-ID: <20011230104157.B33871@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011225151622.A19770@freebsdportal.com> <20011225221102.P38031-100000@bunning.skiltech.com> <20011229102026.A44597@freebsdportal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011229102026.A44597@freebsdportal.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 29 December 2001 at 10:20:26 -0500, Jim Freeze wrote: > Has anyone made any progress on getting the Olympus or Nikon > cameras working as a usb mass storage device? > > I need to be able to download images from the camera. > I have read the suggestion from several people > to just purchase a smart-card drive. I may end up having to go > that route, but would rather not pay any money if I don't > have to. I tried gphoto2 recently with my Nikon CoolPix 880. It was able to establish some kind of communication, but I didn't get any photos downloaded. One of the reasons I didn't continue was the realization that I was draining the batteries; I didn't see any evidence of something that wasn't working, just that I hadn't understood the commands yet. > But..., if I do, what is a good brand of smart card drive? And, > what can I expect to pay? Flash card PCMCIA adaptors seem to be all the same, only a few wires, and they cost about $10. They probably pay for themselves in battery life pretty quickly :-) 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 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