Mitch Harding;299401 Wrote: > My point with the cameras was not that they are not complex, but that > the hardware, firmware, and software are all made by the same company. > The number of variables they need to control for are significantly > smaller. Talking about digital cameras is very appropriate here. As Mitch says, they are closed systems that only have to cope with their own constrained little universe.
But wait... there is a time when a camera has to cope in the big bad world of an uncontrolled environment, and that's when you start downloading pictures from the camera to your PC. My wife has one of those Canon IXUS things. As a camera, it has never missed a beat. But when she goes to transfer the pictures to her PC, and the Canon software has to mix it with all the other stuff that's lurking on the same machine, guess what? Sometimes it works, and sometimes it hangs. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47302 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
