Digital Cameras

[Mike Jeays]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:13, Ralph wrote:
> --- "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad at shire.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a chance to get digital camers working
> > with FreeBSD?  All I
> > > need is load images from camera using USB port.
> > 
> > Most digital camera's today implement the USB mass
> > storage system, so 
> > you should just try and plug the camera in.  It may
> > work!
> > 
> > Chad
> > 
> 
> Chad/All,
>   From experience (I have the Canon Digital Rebel) I
> can say that plugging the camera won't be as simple as
> plugging in the CFCard into a CFCard reader and then
> into you USB port as a mass storage device.  The Canon
> requires a bunch of drivers and special software even
> on the Windows box I copy stuff to.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Ralph Los
>     Information Security Consultant
>     bOUNDARIEZ
>  
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> 
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gphoto2 appears to support the Digital Rebel; here is a snippet from
gphoto2 --list-cameras:

"Canon EOS Digital Rebel (normal mode)"
"Canon EOS Digital Rebel (PTP mode)"

Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of one to test it with...