If the camera uses smart media, compact flash, etc. you can use it
(regardless of brand name) with ANY Mac that has USB support [be it
direct or though a USB pci card.
Just get one of the readers (about $30 - $40). Pull the media card from
the camera, pop it in the reader and then Image Capture will grab the
photos and do what you want with them (download, put in iPhoto etc.).
This really saves on battery life in the field!!!!!
One thing to note about the card readers: make sure they define their
selves as being Mass Media devices. If they don't (one that for example
does not is the MicroTech USB CameraMate), then you will have to wait
for the manufacturer to release updates for the reader every time Apple
updates OS-X.
Now if you are staying in OS-9, then the drivers are already written.
Jerry
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 07:33 PM, leelarson at mac.com wrote:
> On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 09:53 PM, Susan Chapman wrote:
>
>> I've been putting off buying a digital camera until now...I am still
>> on my
>> beige G3 desktop running OS 9.2.2. Are there any digital cameras I
>> can use?
>
> I am no expert on photography, but I bought an Olympus S-550 last
> summer
>
> <http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/
> cpg_product_lobbypage.asp?l=1&p=16&bc=1&product=867>
>
> and have been quite happy with it. We've taken nearly a thousand
> pictures with it. It's pretty much a point and shoot camera with 3
> megapixels. The pictures are very good -- much better than my
> brother's HP Photosmart 720, and the batteries last _much_ longer than
> the HP.
>
> It works right out of the box with Mac OS X over USB on my G4 and
> iBook. I think any of the PCI USB cards would probably work for you.
> I've used the combination USB/Firewire card from Orange Micro,
> although not with this camera, and it had no trouble talking to a Zip
> drive and an Epson printer.
>
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>
>
>
>
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
