digital cameras

[Grant Edwards]

In article <7f9e1817.0305021105.459267a at posting.google.com>, Ian McMeans wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a good way to work with digital cameras,
> something that isn't specific to a model of camera?

All the cameras I've played with (Nikon, Sony, Olympus) just
are just USB mass storage devices with FAT filesystems on them.

> I'm running windows XP, and I'm guessing most methods won't be
> cross-platform.

Dunno.  You plug in the USB cable and it gets mounted as a disk
drive.  Knowing what drive name or mount-point to access gets a
bit tricky I suppose.

> I want to write a program that downloads an image from the
> camera (kind of like a webcam) but then does further processing
> on it.

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