Identifying a USB camera

[Richmond Mathewson]

Here's a thought:

run a wee script:

put the volumes into fld "fLIST"

certainly my tatty, cheapo, no-name digital camera
just shows up as an un-named volume (mind you this is
on a Mac).

all the other volumes (i.e. my hard drives) have names
. . .

my experience of Macintosh is that UNLESS you fiddle
around with the system prefs as soon as I plug my
camera in a slightly silly photo program automatically
launches, identifies the camera, and starts doing all
sorts of things I didn't ask it to.

Having set the system prefs so a digital volume (such
as a camera or movie-camera mounts as a 'normal'
volume you should be able to treat it just like any
other volume.

I spent about 30 minutes guttering about with the
settings on my computer; and now it can 'see' the
camera as a volume; but it will not behave with my
son's mobile phone.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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