RE: taking pictures at certain times

Rod Smart wrote:
>     Ahh the camera is a digital han camera, not a cheapo web cam...
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>     Can the camera be set up to take pictures on a time period? or is
> there some communications that can be fired down the USB to act as a
> web cam then just grab the stream? =20
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>     If its just a web cam, then the drivers are possibly already in
> the Kernel sources, then you could just use V4L (Video for Linux) to
> grab the video for say 3 seconds every hour, have you checked out
> sourceforge yet?  =20
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> Leon Blakeley wrote:
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>> Hi Rob,
>> All I can do so far is transfer pics (and files) to and from the
>> camera via USB that's both windows and Linux The camera is a Olympus
>> C-750UZ Cheers Leon=20

It probably would be easier to fish for images out of a webcam.  Issue
68 of Linux magazine had a tutorial on this.  The scripts for it were
posted here:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Magazine/Downloads/68/Perl

Unfortunately they only make issues that are older than 5 months fully
available as PDF's and that tute is not one of the partially available
ones.

Regards Geoff Scott