digital video cameras?

[Adrian Pircalabu]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 09:34:15 -0500
Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists at HotPOP.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2004 19:16:20 +0300
> Adrian Pircalabu <adip at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 15 May 2004 20:13:15 +0100
> > Ben Paley <ben at spooty.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Anyone know anything about digital video cameras and freebsd? I've
> > > got usb but no firewire. What might be a good choice? And what
> > > editing software should I be looking at? Is there something in the
> > > ports that people like?
> 
> For simplicity reason and not having to mess with getting any extra
> programs working, I would suggest something that uses a flash card.
> 
> Then you just need a usb flash card reader and a flash card =]
> 
> The flash card will show up as a da device and the reader will up as a
> umass device.

Minolta Dimage X uses SD card which IS detected as an umass device.
That's why there is absolutely no need for extra plugins/addons, I
simply mount it as /dev/da0s1 et. voila.
For an amateur photographer like me, it suits perfectly.


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Adrian Pircalabu