Richard wrote:
Hi Richard, hi Samy
Samy
Richard , where do you get Gphoto from ? Does it work with USB and 7.0 or am I stuck with the serial cable thing ? I have a casio QV-3000 that has an ibm micro drive , hold a ton of pictures , but eats up batteries. allways keeep at least one extra set of batries, and use the ac adapter when transfrering to pc ect..
www.gphoto.org - should be able to get it from www.helixcode.com as well. If you can download a picture from a camera then it doesn't matter which network protocol you use - well it shouldn't anyway ? Fred says that there's not much USB support in Gphoto. I just don't know. I see USB as "the work of the devil" <knocks wooden cross against someone's head>
;-) I also see usb a bit suspicious. USB cameras (should) work via USB-storage. I know that a friend "tweaked" some drivers some time ago (Richard: Reinald did this btw) to get his Sony working on his laptop. Usually it's USB-storage. With that it's not nessesarry to d/l via USB cable, since your camera turns into a harddrive. I use Flashrom adapters to read my memory modules with my laptop. (no USB on my camera)
I find the floppy drive accessory things sort out all problems. Just a case of where to get them from ? I go to www.jessops.co.uk but I'm not sure about places to go to in the States. You shouldn't have any problems finding them. Just make sure that your camera uses smartmedia cards.
Someone ought to get on to the Japanese camera manufacturers and tell them that we want more choice when it comes to connectors and cables that allow us to plug electronic cameras into computers and other gadgets :))
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