Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a friend who is going to be loaning me his sony mavica FD-95 and > stores > the pics in JPG format on a 3.5" disk, he say's. But, I'm wondering how can I > use it to get those photo's from the camera to my box, than uploaded to an > online gallery or website?
I have one of these cameras. The later models have a MemoryStik slot built-in so as long as you have a fairly normal USB cardreader you should be set. If you'll be using the floppies for media storage you have a few options: a) mount the floppy drive in the usual unix way (ms_dos;root privileges) b) access via mtools in quasi-DOS syntax (normal user; no mounting required!) c) beg/borrow/steal a Sony MSFD adapter which lets you store directly to a MemoryStik. I've got one but since (until recently) I didn't have a cardreader I had to use windozes to access the MSFD adapter (win98/2k driver needed). I'm sure someone clever could hack together a device driver for it but AFAIK there isn't one available for unix/linux. The old Mavicas are kinda obsolete however they're popular with the eBay crowd as the better ones have a manual focus option and do pretty good JPEG compression internally. HTH, Jeff _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
