Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:44:41 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com> Cc: Chris <cengland@direct.ca>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital Cameras Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10003180135090.11911-100000@jason.argos.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003180023260.97970-100000@daedal.oneway.com>
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> > 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
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