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On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 1. February 2016 15.14.56 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> http://rhombus-tech.net/articles/fosdem2016/ >> >> awesome. i'm completely out of steam now, happily relaxing at the >> 2go4 hostel, going ice-skating this evening and back in den haag >> tomorrow :) > > Nice report and a nice experience, it would seem! Hopefully, a lot more people > see the point in doing this now. > > Thinking back to your interview the other day, you mentioned using EOMA-68 (or > another EOMA specification) with digital cameras, and I must admit to have > been thinking about this myself recently, what with the "cameras are just > computers now" rhetoric one reads when perusing camera/photography discussion > forums (along with the retort that certain cameras "are only computers, not > cameras"). Matters got compounded somewhat when Samsung decided to retreat > from interchangeable lens camera production, according to vague announcements, > behavioural observations, and the occasional rumour. someone suggested doing digital-signing of pictures so that the editor (or the BBC) would know that it was an official journalist who took the picture. imagine a riot where the journalist takes pictures uploaded in real-time over 3G or WIFI, then converts to taking camcorder style, and gathers evidence of police brutality. but because it is in real-time the police commisioner calls up urgently to the riot police to stop their attacks... because the pictures are going out live in real-time. > I'd also been thinking a bit about existing PCMCIA/CardBus devices, and your > mention of a card that fits into a camera and which provides ports for USB > devices finally reminded me to dig out a card that I'd been thinking of, one > that you might be amused/interested to see again. So I took the liberty of > adding a page to the wiki: > > http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/usb_port_card > > Feel free to move or remove it if you don't think it fits in. (Or, indeed, to > copy the image into the wiki as an attachment to keep the content in one > place.) yeah this is basically the pass-through concept. > The PCMCIA card size occupies about the same area as the screen on my camera, > which is smaller than many DSLRs, and so the idea shouldn't be regarded as > particularly crazy. > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
