Re: smart dslr?

2004-03-17 Thread Mark Erickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Dallman) wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Erickson) wrote: Since digital cameras are high-volume items, it's probably significantly more profitable to keep this development in-house rather than pay royalties to, say, Microsoft (or even Palm

Re: smart dslr?

2004-03-17 Thread John Dallman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Erickson) wrote: > Since digital cameras are high-volume items, it's probably significantly > more profitable to keep this development in-house rather than pay > royalties to, say, Microsoft (or even PalmSource). Mobile phones are much h

RE: smart dslr?

2004-03-17 Thread Amita Guha
> From what I've seen in the marketplace, many companies seem > to be extremely > reluctant to incorporate Microsoft software into their > products if they > don't have to. Yes, and it's probably better from a stablity standpoint to have custom-built firmware for each camera. I know I wouldn

Re: smart dslr?

2004-03-17 Thread Alan Chan
From what I've seen in the marketplace, many companies seem to be extremely reluctant to incorporate Microsoft software into their products if they don't have to. And for good reasons. Once they got hooked, there will be no escape. Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan

Re: smart dslr?

2004-03-17 Thread Mark Erickson
A company called Flashpoint Technologies developed a "real OS" specifically for digital cameras in the late 1990's. It was called Digita and was included in a number of Kodak, Pentax, HP, and Minolta cameras, but hasn't been seen in any cameras lately. The Flashpoint website is still alive but

Re: smart dslr?

2004-03-17 Thread Jostein
I seriously doubt that running a PC operating system will make a dslr any smarter ...:-) Jostein - Original Message - From: "Mishka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:24 AM Subject: smart dslr? > i am curious when t

RE: smart dslr?

2004-03-17 Thread Alan Chan
The big black ugly Microsoft Xcam of course. The first thing you will notice is a world first "reset button" which is handy whenever the system freezed. Another cool feature is a mini fan to keep it cool as it drew so much power to keep the mega size buffer happy. But on top of all, just in case

smart dslr?

2004-03-16 Thread Mishka
i am curious when the first camera that runs - MSWindows (of some kind) - Linux - PalmOS will appear. any bets? (of course one can say that it's already there: any PDA with a digicam with it -- but i mean, a *real* camera, with an API under a real OS) mishka