[lug] seeking a Kodak DC4800, DC290, DC265 or other remote-co ntrol-able digital camera

[Riggs, Rob]

The Olympus C-2000 that I have supports software controlled snapshots. I set
up a simple web-cam page to test this feature at one point. I doubt you can
convince me to part with it though. And I don't know if it actually stored
the image to the flash card or just cached it internally (which may be more
or less convenient for you, depending on your needs).


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Hill [mailto:ed at eh3.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:06 AM
To: TriLUG; CLUE TECH; Boulder LUG
Subject: [lug] seeking a Kodak DC4800, DC290, DC265 or other
remote-control-able digital camera



Hi folks,

Our lab is desperately seeking a digital camera that we can control
(that is: shoot, download, delete-images-from-flash-card, and repeat)
from a computer, preferably a Linux-based machine.

In the past, I've written PERL scripts calling the OpenDigita
(http://ods.sourceforge.net) "ks" program for this purpose and it has
worked well.  More recently, I've been trying to use the jPhoto
(http://jphoto.sourceforge.net) interface to accomplish the same with
newer (DX series) Kodak cameras.  I can get downloads to work with the
DX models, but they do not support the image capture ("shoot")
functionality.  Unfortunately, it appears that the only recently
manufactured consumer-grade Kodak camera that supports this level of
functionality is the DC-4800 model which has almost entirely disappeared
from retail shelves.

So, would anyone of you consider trading one of the following models 

  - Kodak DC 4800
  - Kodak DC 290
  - Kodak DC 265

for a BRAND NEW 3.1 Mpixel Kodak DX-3900 and, potentially, some cash? 
If you have a DC-4800, we'll consider covering part of the difference in
cost.

If you have a friend with one of the above models, please pass this
email along.

thanks for your help,
Ed

ps - I'm researching the remode-control functionality of non-Kodak 
     cameras and its a lot of docs to dig through.  If anyone can 
     recommend or is even willing to swap for a model that supports 
     the computer-control functionality we need, I'd be very grateful!


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