[nmglug] digital camera

Michael R. Bernstein michael at fandomhome.com
Mon May 12 19:31:53 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:59 -0600, Mark Galassi wrote:
> 
> You can probably trust that just about anything will just work on USB.

Yeah, I thought that too ("How hard can it be? It's just a USB storage
device..."), but trust me, plenty of the cheap no-name USB cameras don't
actually work without some proprietary windows crapware for 'album
management' or some similar idiocy.

I tried three different ones before hitting on the libgphoto2 heuristic.

- Michael R. Bernstein
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