What currently produced Digital Cameras are supported by Mor
  • Order of the Butterfly
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    AyoS
    Posts: 410 from 2003/8/13
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    Hello All,

    I am in the market for a New Digital Camera 2.3 to 3.0 Megapixel. While currently waiting for My Peg II, I will be using it on my Win2000 machine... What Cameras do you use in Morphos currently? I want to make sure that when my system comes that I will be able to use the camera immediately. Also Please point me in the right direction to get this Info.

    Thank You,

    Katos1
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  • Caterpillar
    Caterpillar
    Posts: 21 from 2003/8/11
    From: Oslo, Norway
    Hi!

    I have used a few different Digital Cameras on my Pegasos.
    Most of the new Digicams are "portable media compliant".
    This means that if you install a little program caled fat95 on MorphOS,
    plugging the camera into any USB-port will show the cameras memory or
    memory-card as a USBDISK on your Ambient desktop.

    It works with all the Fuji and Kodak cameras I have tried.
    As well as the Mustek DV3000... ;-)
    Pegasos of course..
    ..the computer I always wanted.
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    AyoS
    Posts: 410 from 2003/8/13
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    Thanks for the Replies,

    @cecilia: Yes, I did read your review of the DC show, guess I just didn't understand the Camera part properly, Thanks.
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    realstar
    Posts: 298 from 2003/2/24
    From: Canada
    I have a Fuji FinePix A200 running on MorphOS.
    It mounts as a USB Mass-Storage-Device and
    allows copying of files to and from the camera's
    memory card. You need to set the "simple scsi"
    flag in USB Prefs to get quick recognition of this
    camera. Most Fuji FinePix models seem to have MSD
    protocol so they should work fine. Here is an
    example pic from the camera:

    http://browse.to/emerald/pcengine.jpg
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    hooligan
    Posts: 1948 from 2003/2/23
    From: Lahti, Finland
    Olympus Camedia-series seems to work faultlessly.
    www.mikseri.net/hooligan <- Free music
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    serge
    Posts: 725 from 2003/2/20
    be carful.
    A lot of USB digital cameras works fine.
    Attention : if you speak about a video camera to be connected by Firewire in DV native PAL or NTSC video formats, Morphos cant use it.
    In this case, you can use a Composite video card like TVcard to grab videos.
    You can grab your videos in DV with Linux and transfert them to mos.

    Have fun :-D
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    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    My Sandisk USB Imagemate works fine but my Kodak DX4900 unfortunally not.
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    roschmyr
    Posts: 206 from 2003/2/20
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    i have a Sony DSC-P52 3.2 Megapixel, no problems to use it
    as a MassStorage with following settings for massstorage
    SimpleSCSI
    No Initial Reset
    Translate CMD6->CMD10

    @Toto
    did you try your Kodak DX4900 with PtpDigCam
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    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    @roschmyr

    Yes I tried PtpDigCam but it doesn't work. I get the following message 'No USB camera detected'.

    It's not a big problem for me because I can use my SanDisk ImageMate to transfer pictures.
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    AyoS
    Posts: 410 from 2003/8/13
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    Has anyone used an HP 612 Photosmart or similar tech camera with Morphos?

    Thanks to all for the replies!
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  • Targhan
    Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8
    From: USA
    I think putting together a list would be a WONDERFUL idea!
    :idea:Targhan

    MorphOS portal? www.MorphZone.org
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    rhino
    Posts: 9 from 2003/2/24
    Toto has mentioned this but it's worth reinforcing that if you have a Poseidon compatible memory card reader you can use any digital camera that has a removeable memory card. Card readers are available that read all common types of card in one unit.

    I've just bought a Canon A80 digicam which doesn't work directly but I can download its images very quickly by putting the compact flash card in my card reader.

    BTW I don't have a Pegasos but I'm sure Poseidon works the same on all platforms it supports.

    HTH

    Robert
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    Doraemon
    Posts: 137 from 2003/7/1
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    I have a Nikon Coolpix 2000 and runs fino on mos.
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    Jupp3
    Posts: 1193 from 2003/2/24
    From: Helsinki, Finland
    Quote:

    if you have a Poseidon compatible memory card reader you can use any digital camera that has a removeable memory card.

    Actually some cameras use propietary format for storing images on memory cards, but I guess such cameras are really rare...

    Also, not every USB memory card reader is compatible with poseidon, one of "good signs" is that, if there's no additional software needed for WindowsXP (But that does NOT guarantee, that reader would work)
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    rhino
    Posts: 9 from 2003/2/24
    @Jupp3

    Quote:

    Actually some cameras use propietary format for storing images on memory cards, but I guess such cameras are really rare...


    That's a good point, for example I know there are some (the more expensive models IIRC) Minolta cameras that use a different colour space and thus need proprietary conversion software on the PC.

    It would be a good idea to check reviews of any camera to make sure it doesn't require any special conversion software. That said AFAIK all the other major camera manufacturers use a standard JPEG format.

    There's a compatibility list of memory card readers that are known to work with Poseidon on the E3B website:

    http://www.e3b.de/usb/index_e.html

    Robert
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