N770 + Camera

[joq100]

I was thinking in getting a camera that goes well with the N770, I have found that some cameras (Casio Exilim and some Konicas) accept a mmc card as memory, would the rs-mmc or mobile mmc card of the Nokia work?(with the adapter, of course :p ) and, would it matter that there are N770 archives in it?

Thanks in advance.

[Chainsaw76]

the RS-MMC with adaptor will work fine in a MMC device. The other option is to use the USB hacks around, and just connect the camera to the Nokia via usb.

It shouldn't matter that there are nokia files on the card, but that may vary from camera to camera (It will also depend on what filesystem the camera uses.) make sure you have a backup before you try it the first time.

Some camera's are coming with wifi, and I wouldn't be surprised to find some with bluetooth. Those would give you even more options.

The camera on my phone S*cks. but it is awefull nice being able to take a picture, and send it via email immediatly from the 770 using bluetooth to grab the image. I'm even working on a script that will auto sync my camera images to a website.

-Jason

[joq100]

Hacking the USB, I think it's against my priorities (the hardware integrity). Swapping the card will do for me well.

Thanks.

[wendo]

I'm curious, are there any cameras on the market at this time that have bluetooth (besides camera phones, that is)?

[joq100]

The closest thing that I can find would be this, not BT but Wifi:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05102501canonsd430wifi.asp

I must say that I agree with the editor, I don't find the lack of wireless connectivity an important issue in a camera. Cool maybe, but nothing I would pay that much for.

[thoughtfix]

I have an Exilim EX-S500 at home. I'm going to try to use the spare 64M RS-MMC card I have at home and take a few quick pictures and a video and report back to you on how they play back on the tablet. Cool?

[joq100]

Hey thanks,
I wouldn't put my money on the chances of the n770 playing video, but maybe I'm wrong.

[wendo]

Thoughtfix, that would be great. Let us know how it goes.

[thoughtfix]

Sorry it took me so long - I forgot about the thread. Tested with a Casio Exilim EX-S500. All the photos on my blog are taken with the same camera (but sized down/compressed after to save space)

A few things:
* The images record at about the same speed as regular SD
* Full 640x480, 30 fps movies record just fine. RS-MMC works well.
* The first time I plugged the memory card back into the device, it said "Memory card unformatted or corrupted.
* I removed and re-inserted it and it worked fine after that. Odd.
* Full 5 megapixel images take about 4 to 5 seconds to load. Each is 2 to 3 megs. They look great.
* A 14M 30 second 30 FPS video did NOT play back on the media player: "Unable to open. File format not supported."

[wendo]

Interesting. Thanks for the report back. I may have to try my camera out too.