{"id":56,"date":"2008-02-18T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2008-02-18T21:55:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T20:55:22","slug":"digital-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"digital cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear lazyweb<\/p>\n<p>I have been looking for a small nice digital camera, one that of course takes nice pictures, but besides that have the following technical features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>connected with a &#8220;generic&#8221; usb cable<\/li>\n<li>a usb mass storage device for the computer<\/li>\n<li>battery charged over the usb cable<\/li>\n<li>uses a generic memory card type (eg. sd)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I want it to be using a generic cable for charging and transfering pictures because I am not that good at not loosing cables and chargers and such so a replacement cable should be very easy to get.  And I want it to be a usb mass storage because I want it working with any computer.<\/p>\n<p>It kind of seems hard to figure out what devices to look at. Most &#8220;technical specifications&#8221; doesn&#8217;t contain information on wether it is a USB A => USB mini B cable or some vendor specific cable, nor do they contain information on wether it is a usb mass storage device or a device requiring mtp\/ptp.<\/p>\n<p><b>Canon<\/b> looks like it is doing mtp\/ptp over a generic cable &#8211; and with a external charger.<br \/>\n<b>Samsung<\/b> tells deep inside their manuals that it uses the usb mass storage driver. Samsung uses a vendor specific cable, but is also charged thru this cable.<br \/>\n<b>Kodak<\/b> seems to be using a generic cable, a external charger and undefined how the communication with the computer is.<br \/>\n<b>Olympus<\/b> seems to be using a vendor specific cable and a external charger. But it is a bit unclear. Seems to be able to do both mtp and usb mass storage<br \/>\n<b>HP<\/b> seems to use a generic cable, standard AA batteries and no charger bundled, seems to be configured to use usb mass storage.<br \/>\n<b>Sony<\/b> uses memory sticks which are just too expensive.<br \/>\n<b>Casio<\/b> seems to use a generic cable, a external charger and is a bit unclear about communication. Could be usb mass storage though.<br \/>\n<b>Nikon<\/b> seems to use generic cable, mtp protocol and a external charger<\/p>\n<p>Argf. What have I missed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear lazyweb I have been looking for a small nice digital camera, one that of course takes nice pictures, but besides that have the following technical features: connected with a &#8220;generic&#8221; usb cable a usb mass storage device for the computer battery charged over the usb cable uses a generic memory card type (eg. sd) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}