On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:51:22AM -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:
> You might have a tough job, dependent on what you are trying to 
> accomplish. If you plan
> to control a camera in the field, like to take security or animal 
> pictures, you might be disappointed.
> When I looked at that a few years ago, the USB channel was only used to 
> pull pictures from the
> camera, nothing else. I was not aware of any digital camera whose USB 
> port allowed you to actually
> snap pix with it. But then, I am an ole guy and sometimes fail to pay 
> attention...

Been a _long_ while since I last played with it, but the Linux software
gphoto could take photo's from cameras on demand back when you used a
serial port to connect to a camera... I remember taking a time-lapse
over a day with a really ancient, though horribly expensive at the time,
HP(?) something with max 640x480 resolution. Looks like it's still under
active development, www.gphoto.org

Interestingly, my dad won the camera at work after a supplier had tried
to give a "gift" to the very honest head of IT... The only computer I
had at the time was a very obsolete old IBM XT. Took another 3 years
before I finally got a 486 that could run Linux to actually get the
camera working, never used the software that came with it in the end.

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