Rumor has it that Ethan Dicks may have mentioned these words:
I used a ~10-year-old Olympus recently for my
EarthDial...
What's an EarthDial?
Awrighty, googling....
Some kinda flavour of Sundial device, hooked to a webcam &
Interwebitated... ;-)
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/earthdial/network.html
Is the Antarctic one yours?
I don't know if
it's easy to tell a "modern" camera to take a photo via USB, but all
the ones I know of just treat the camera as an external storage
device, not a scanner-like peripheral to be controlled.
Sorry for the offtopicness, but I believe it's a "fairly standard" function
of today's DSLRs - At least for my Nikon D70, it's called "tethered
shooting" or "tethered capture." IIRC (tho I've never done it) you can
either automate taking a picture to CF or directly down the USB to the
software that requested the shot. Bibble can do this with most cameras that
support it.
Gratuitous yet sucky attempt to bring this back:
View my digital photos of VCF-MW 2006!
http://zmerch.30below.com/vcf_mw_06/
[[ Sorry. I said it was sucky! ;-) ]]
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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