Digital camera for FreeBSD
If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Please CC me on responses as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. _ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Ames roberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Let me first make sure that I answer correctly: I do interpret your question about a point and shoot digital camera as a question regarding a photo camera primarily, not a movie camera. I hope that's correct. Nearly all cameras work - either by accessing the FAT file system on the card (or internal memory), or by PTP commands - both should be standard, and some cameras can even be switched from one to the other standard. I own the following (digital) cameras, all working with FreeBSD (list position indicates quality, quite): - Canon PowerShot S3 IS - Kodak EasyShare CX6330 - HP PhotoSmart M407 - Mustek MDC 3500 - Aiptec Pencam (AEG Snap 300) Basically, you can use nearly ANY camera with FreeBSD. It's just important that at least ONE of the existing access standards is supported by the camera - USB direct storage access or PTP functionality. (I'm concentrating on USB cameras here, allthough Firewire based cameras should also work, but I don't own any, so I can't be more precise about this interface.) There's also a workaround you should know about: If the camera does NOT allow you to access its files through the camera, you often can eject a SD or CF card. Many PCs today include readers for those media. And if the reader complies to USB standards, it can be used with FreeBSD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD
On Sun 2010-07-18 12:21:42 UTC-0400, Robert Ames (roberta...@hotmail.com) wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Please CC me on responses as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. Any camera that can act as a USB mass storage device should basically be plug-and-play in FreeBSD. Once such a camera is switched on it will behave essentially the same as a USB card reader, and you can you mount the flash memory card using mount_msdos. This web page shows how: http://www.freebsddiary.org/card-reader.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass-storage_device_class There are some cameras (eg. my Kodak C1013) that support Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) over USB, instead of acting as a mountable mass storage device. For PTP-only cameras you can use gPhoto (graphics/gphoto2 in Ports) to copy the images and videos to your PC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPhoto I believe F-Spot (graphics/f-spot) also supports PTP cameras. Another option (for both types of cameras) is of course to use a USB card reader, removing the flash memory card from the camera each time you want to access your images. It's somewhat cumbersome to do this each time, although it's good to have a card reader anyway in emergencies when the camera's batteries have inevitably gone flat. Good luck, Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD
2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Amesroberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Let me first make sure that I answer correctly: I do interpret your question about a point and shoot digital camera as a question regarding a photo camera primarily, not a movie camera. I hope that's correct. Nearly all cameras work - either by accessing the FAT file system on the card (or internal memory), or by PTP commands - both should be standard, and some cameras can even be switched from one to the other standard. I own the following (digital) cameras, all working with FreeBSD (list position indicates quality, quite): - Canon PowerShot S3 IS - Kodak EasyShare CX6330 - HP PhotoSmart M407 - Mustek MDC 3500 - Aiptec Pencam (AEG Snap 300) Basically, you can use nearly ANY camera with FreeBSD. It's just important that at least ONE of the existing access standards is supported by the camera - USB direct storage access or PTP functionality. (I'm concentrating on USB cameras here, allthough Firewire based cameras should also work, but I don't own any, so I can't be more precise about this interface.) There's also a workaround you should know about: If the camera does NOT allow you to access its files through the camera, you often can eject a SD or CF card. Many PCs today include readers for those media. And if the reader complies to USB standards, it can be used with FreeBSD. My Casio Exilim EX-S12 works perfectly, and identifies itself as a USB Mass Storage device, i.e. it gets a daX device node in /dev. I used to have an Olympus SP-500UZ, which also worked perfectly as a USB Mass Storage device. Neither of those are current models, but I doubt that either Casio or Olympus have stopped supporting USB Mass Storage (IIRC the Casio can be set to either USB Mass Storage or PTP). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
