Vfw for still digital cameras?

hi;
can a still camera be hooked and detected by JMF?
i tried every search for VFW and digital cameras but i could not find out if i can capture video from a stills camera.
thanks.

at last i get an answer in this forum.People aren't ignoring you... it's just not a very active area, and people haven't necessarily used digital cameras as webcams.
i actually was wondering if i could capture the same data that is delivered to a >still camera LCD screen. If you mean the actual live video viewscreen even before you take a photograph... then I seriously doubt it. That's not what the camera was designed to do.
You're asking a digital stills camera to behave like a digital camcorder / webcam.
When you connect your camera up to your PC, using a USB cable... does it appear as a virtual disk drive / USB mass storage device ?
If so, then you may be able to just read the JPEGs as if they were stored on a disk drive. ( only after the camera user takes the pictures )
That is the limit of my knowledge in this area...
regards,
Owen

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