Hello Martin,

  MJCH> I'd be surprised if a camera would make the inbuilt microphone
      > available. In my experience cameras generally only mimic being
      > a disk device so you can get to the images but aren't a full-
      > blown multimedia peripheral.

Perhaps the second camera mentioned is some sort of Webcam. I have one
(that afaik doesn't have a mic) which works with NetBSD in that I can
snap stills and even stream video to the screen.  I have yet to try
video capture or videoconferencing with it since I don't have broad
-band at home.

- Andy Ball