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Ideally some way to power your camera through a power supply.

Ability to connect your camera to your Linux-based PC through a USB cable.

A camera supported by gPhoto, with Liveview capabilities.

It’s straightforward to get setup within Linux, this is the guide for how it’s done. The depth of field adjustment is what allows for a nice, smooth, blurred background.

Using a DSLR provides a number of benefits over an off-the-shelf webcam, most notably higher image quality, ability to finely adjust the frame of an image (zoom, wide angle), and adjust the depth of field. The Sandisk ImageMate 12-in-1, at least the version purchased in late 2005, is known to work well.If you desire a more professional looking image when video conferencing, it turns out that you can use a DSLR camera as your webcam. These appear as umass/scsibus/sd and can be mounted as disk drives. There are many USB card readers that accept CF, SD, etc. Mount sdNe as an msdos filesystem and copy your pictures. When plugging them in to USB, you will see in dmesg umass, scsibus, and then sdN. Many cameras can be configured to look like disk drives, instead of the camera mode discussed above. To fetch all the files from your camera and place them in the current dir. Once installed, simply run: gphoto2 -get-all-files

Assuming your pkgsrc source tree is located in /usr/pkgsrc, you may install it with: cd /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/gphoto2 # make install After a little browsing in /pkrsrc/graphics I decided on gphoto2, the CLI version of gphoto. Now I needed some software that could access the camera and pull the images off the camera. NetBSD recognized the camera as: ugen0: Eastman Kodak Company KODAK EasyShare CX7300 Digital Camera I plugged in the camera, via a USB cable, to my laptop. I have an KODAK EasyShare CX7300 Digital Camera, and I wanted to get the images off of it. Please note this is what worked for me, your milage may vary