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Re: looked fun
by Carlos Miguel on Wednesday 05/Sep/2001, @08:56

Speaking of Linux Camera Support, my new Olympus D-510Z (aside from excellent picture quality) has a feature called "USB-Autoconnect", which is a fancy way to say that the camera behaves as a USB mass storage device. Under Mandrake 8.0 all I had to do is plug the USB cable, and Linux automatically loaded the proper modules and recognized it as a scsi device (/dev/sda1), then I setup a mount point and added it to fstab. Now I can access the camera from Konqui, load/store files, view/generate thumbnails, without the need of the gphoto ioslave...sweet!
Only one complain: Konqui (or Linux itself?...it'll be easy to find who's guilty ;)) is constantly polling the camera (as the transfer LED blinks all the time, meaning access to the smartmedia card), which in the long run drains more power.

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Re: looked fun
by Navindra Umanee on Wednesday 05/Sep/2001, @12:55

Colour me jealous, although I don't really like those smartmedia cards. I've heard only good things about the Olympus models, but those smartmedia cards do need some maintaining with those exposed pins and all...

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Re: looked fun
by Anonymous on Wednesday 05/Sep/2001, @17:06

Many newer cameras can be used as mass-storage devices, including the mentioned Fuji Finepix.

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