Please help! Digital Camera / OS X

[solrac]

Ok this really irks me..........
I was looking for a digital camera with at least 3x optical zoom, and 2 megapixel range, within a $300 budget.

The ONLY camera that succeeded in that was the Toshiba PDR-M61. In fact, every store I went to was completely sold out of them! I ended up getting a display model of one for $240. Pretty good deal if you ask me!

It's USB, and Windows / Mac compatible.

Of course, it doesn't work on OS X.

Apple's site lists a bunch of supported cameras.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106523

Toshiba is not included! But, it says image capture also supports cameras that use PTP, digita, or mass storage protocol for the camera.

There is a mac USB driver for this camera, as well as a mac OS 9 program called image expert.

It also uses SmartMedia cards for the picture storage.

Is there ANY way this can ever work with OS X? (i.e. with an unnoficial OS X driver, by using a card reader that is supported by OS X, or anything else?)

Also, this model seems to be discontinued, and hard to find on ANY toshiba web site. LOL...... whatever.

It's a good camera, but is it doomed to OS 9 forever?

-solrac-

 

[themacko]

Mmmm, I won't start off with the "you should've checked this out before you bought the damn thing..." speach. OS 10.2 is in production, and one of the improvements is support for more digital cameras. If your current Toshiba is no longer in production, though, that's not necessarily a good sign.

Your best bet is definately a SmartMedia Card Reader. I'm sure you can snag one at Amazon.com or something. In my *limited* knowledge of digital cameras and stuff, I think that if you just get a simple smartmedia usb reader and plug it into your mac, you should be able to just get the pictures off.

But you'll want a more definate answer than that before you buy anything else.

(you can always ditch that camera on eBay and put that cash towards a digicam you KNOW will work in X )