On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > Is there any way to remotely control a camera like this? as in plug your PC > into the USB interface, and remotely tell it to take shots, like a 'webcam'? All the cameras I've seen (Olympus is all we use at work) have that functionailty. it comes with a serial/USB cable (depending on the model) and you use software to control all the functions you would have if you were at the camera. A very useful feature indeed, the camera makers got that one right. I'm assuming your next question would be how it works under linux. Most of the software I've seen is for that other OS only, you may have to do some reverse engineering to get it to work under linux. I seem to remember Bill Layer playing with something like that and used grep to write a driver for his camera. -Brian