Re: [iPAQ] smartmedia cards ?

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:48:47PM +0000, Richard Cohen wrote:
> > is there a way to access smartmedia cards (used as storage for some
> > digital cameras) from the iPAQ? that plus a port of imagemagick would
> > make for an incredible on-the-road digital photography equipment. :)
>
> Yup. You can get SmartMedia->Pc card adapters.

that means going for a pcmcia sleeve. I was wondering about that today,
since the CF way is much cheaper if you're interested in memory (which
is my primary concern).

> I tried one last year, and
> was pleasantly suprised to find a FAT (can't remember if it was VFAT)
> filesystem appearing. I was in the pub, and low on battery, so I didn't
> play with it for too long, but it worked.

the other alternative I thought about was a direct cable connect and
USB connection, mounting the camera's memory into the filesystem
hierarchy. works great on the PC, so it should work on the ipaq,
provided the USB units play fair. :)
plus, of course, you'd have to solder your own cable. :)

> Another possibility is that I've got gphoto 2 running on my iPAQ. Only
> useful if you've got a supported camera with a serial interface, but it
> works great with my camera. Means I can offload photos from my 24Mb (total)
> of SmartMedia to my 680Mb (or so, total) of CF :-)

not as lucky. the camera isn't supported by gphoto2, plus serial is
incredibly slow on it (much less than 56k).

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