Herb Peyerl wrote
> Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>  wrote:
>  >  * Olympus claims an uncompressed image mode among its features.
>  >    (Presumably, this is a lossless format.  (^&)
> 
> err, or as 'lossless' as digital can be.
> 
>  > Any guidence w.r.t. cameras that work with our favorite OS would be
>  > appreciated.  (Experiences re. camera reliability, and practical advice on
>  > making texture maps also welcome---though those topics aren't so related
>  > to this mailing list.  (^&)
> 
> 
> While not USB, I was pleased to try a friends Kodak somethingorother with
> the CompactFlash cards.  He had a 64MB card and the little CF to PCMCIA
> adapter.  I slid it into my Toshiba laptop running NetBSD 1.4something
> and proceeded to mount the CF card as an MSDOS filesystem and look at the
> jpeg's with 'xv'.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, that's the level of functionality I'd find most
> optimal.  I can carry extra 'film' with me on a holiday or whatever and not
> have to lug my laptop around...

I can confirm Kodak DC240 working. A friend of mine came to visit me
and that was the time I've ported gphoto before it was available on
pkgsrc, so I would expect that many more modells are supported by now.

cheerio Berndt
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