Digital Cameras?

[QuikSanz]

Hi,

Has anyone had success at makeing a digital camera work on USB w/Amiga h/w?

Thanks,
Chris

[elendil]

Not here, but that's because I lack the USB hardware mainly )

AFAIK the only thing you need is the USB hardware, an USB stack (Poseidon?) and a digital camera that acts as a mass storage device, such as most (again AFAIK) Olympus cameras do (That is what I have .

I'm sure someone will come up with something more specific or correct me if I am wrong, but if you have the hw, the stack and a msd camera, I'll bet my dish of quick noodles it will work.

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[realstar]

I have a Fuji FinePix 200A working good
on my Pegasos.  I also tested a Concord
Duo 2000 with success.  I imagine most
Poseidon supported USB interfaces would
work fine with these cameras as well.

These cameras simply mount a drive volume
on the screen when inserted and you can
copy to and from them just like a pen drive
or similar device.  They are recognized by
Poseidon as MSD. (mass storage devices)

Here is an example picture from the Fuji:
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/samel/pcengine.jpg

[lempkee]

i have a Hp315 camera which i use with poseidon and spider2.0 , works great.

and i have a Mercury 3 in one Webcamera , also works fine.

software:  poseidon , pencamtool ,Vhi Studio and Ifx.

hope this help.

oh and yes its in my A1260/66/240 mediator setup.

[rhino]

Even if you get a camera that is incompatible with Poseidon (for example one that is not a USB Massstorage device) the you can buy an inexpensive USB card reader and use that to access your photos from the memory card.

I have an Olympus C-920Z which does not have a USB port (it's serial only) so rather than wait for images to download slowly over the serial port I just pop the SmartMedia card from the camera into my card reader and transfer to my Amiga that way.

Robert

[cockney_dave]

I have a cheap Rolar camera I use with my Amiga, it uses compact flash cards so just got a USB flash card reader, cameras that use flash or smart media cards usually save the pics in a common format like jpeg, which is nice.

[Doobrey]

I`ve got a Konica KD-100 (don`t laught, it was a Xmas present!) working via the mass storage driver using the Highway card in my A4000.
 No problems at all with it, unlike when I tried to use the same camera on Windows..then it was 'Blue Screen of Death' when it installed the drivers and I ended up having to reinstall Windows (again  :evil: )

[asian1]

Hello
Is it possible to connect Professional Digital
Cameras to AmigaOne?
Example: Leica 25 Megapixel, Hasselblad 17 MB,
Kodak 14 Mp, Canon 11 Mp

[QuikSanz]

Hi,

Great info folks. I grabed an Olympus S300 on sale, will order up a USB Z2 card on monday and go from there.

Thanks again for fast/good info;-)

Chris

[minator]

Not sure about the others but I know Canons will probably need a driver.  Thankfully the details are online so someone could knock up a driver if they feel the need.

I have a 10D, not quite the one 1D / 1Ds you're talking about but given the price for the 1D (around €7,000) I don't think there'll be many users to worry about...

The 10D needs drivers for windows, the Mac seems to have them built in.

[Gav]

Id love a digital camera and a spider usb 2.0 but when will elbox actually have a stack for it?

[Lando]

I use a Sony PC101E Mini-DV camcorder - as well as the MiniDV side of things it takes still pictures and MPEG movies and saves them to a Sony memory stick.  I just plug it into my Pegasos through USB and Poseidon mounts it as a drive and I can drag'n'drop the pics and (mpeg) movies onto my HD.

I just hope that with MorphOS 1.5 (due before the end of the year) they include a firewire stack so I can grab the MiniDV footage too!

[Doobrey]

Gav wrote:
Id love a digital camera and a spider usb 2.0 but when will elbox actually have a stack for it?

It`s been a couple of months now since Chris Hodges stopped taking Spider registrations
Didn`t Elbox say they had their own stack almost ready before going with Poseidon ? I guess it wasn`t that complete...
Also,on the Elbox`s website, they say you need the Poseidon USB stack, but fail to mention you can`t register for the full version. :roll:

[cecilia]

i have a  FujiFilm FinePix A200 digital camera which can be seen as removable HD by  Poseidon software. I know this camera is instantly seen when plugged into a Pegasos. It's likely it can also be seen by an amiga with USB card.

and fat95, of course.

[amigau]

one additional point on card readers - get one of the 'universal' kinds that support more than one format.  That way if you want to share pics with others who don't have the same camera/format media you do, you're still ok.

My parents have a Canon that uses CF, while my olympus uses Smart Media - both work fine in my Kodak card reader with a Highway USB card.   And TVPaint is a great image editor for reducing the size of the images when you pull them off the card to work with them on the computer.  Thus you can keep your original high-res image in the original file, but save lower-res images for editing, etc. and have the best of both worlds.  

I have noticed Photogenics doesn't seem to recognize by default the JPEGs off my olympus digicam but after being dithered or simply converted by TVPaint, they work fine.

and in the usual shameless plug, you've been able to download TVPaint free from our site for a LONG time, probably almost two years now:

http://www.amigau.com/c-graphics/tvpaint.htm

just remember that you NEED a graphics card to use it, it will not work without one (kinda like how DPaint V will not work WITH one, doh!)

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com