in the specs for some camera it says things like "built in USB ports only supported" when supported for Macs. I take it that a PCI USB card is not this. But I am confident that some of you operate digital cameras with such cards or other cards (firewire?). What have folk got? (appreciate not general info but specific... brands etc) I have a 7300 and 7600 (and a USB card I have never used). I believe there was a Kodak camera (DX-240) with serial connector (for printer or modem port) - some come up on eBay, anyone have any experience. I want for web only, but must be sharp lens not like the very very poor tethered Connectix web cam I have.
Appreciate any advice re cameras from folk who understand the difference between lens sharpness and ccd capacity (I'm little interested in the latter beyond enough to more or less fill a normal mac monitor, 1.3 MP is fine)
The whole "built in USB port" is so they don't end up debugging USB cards. Part of the problem is that a lot of people calling for tech support have the PCI USB card and the camera and that's all. So they are trying to debug both simultaneously and the camera vendors don't want to have any part of that.
There should be no reason such a camera won't work with a PCI USB card.
Most cameras (especially most worth having) use a flash media card that you can always use with a flash reader which plugs into your USB port. That is how I do it as the camera has SmartMedia but no USB.
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