Subject: Re: digital camera software?
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/22/1999 21:13:28
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

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> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
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> > i have a Fuji MX-500 camera borrowed here, including the serial cable to
> > the computer. Using camediaplay
> > (ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/digi-cam/C-400L/unix/), I don't get anything
> > useful from the camera. I've tried all baudrates I could think of, but no
> > go. Does anyone know some other/better software? (I remember that
> > camediaplay worked fine for some other camera, though).
> > 
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> there is a program called gphoto.  I haven't used it, but my brother has
> (under NetBSD of course) and said it's nicer than the windows program
> which came with his camera (a kodak).  He had to fix a few bugs and make a
> few changes for NetBSD.  I think he was planning on making a package out
> of it.  I can see when he was planning on doing that and maybe I'll just
> get his patches.


forgot the URL, its http://www.gphoto.org but I see that as far as Fuji
cameras, it only lists the DS-7, DX-5, and MX-2700.  I don't know how
different the MX-500 is.

-Dan