VuPoint toy camera and MacOSX?

I was at the mall with Evan today, and we popped through the Toys ‘R Us store. They had a cool looking little toy digital camera for $19, so I just had to pick it up for Evan to mess around with. The box said the software was only for Windows, but I just assumed that MacOSX would be able to see it magically, as it does for everything else that claims to be Windows-only.

No luck. I’ve been googling for drivers or apps or hacks, without any success. Does anyone know how to get pictures from a VuPoint Solutions DC-M1082-VP onto MacOSX? I don’t care if I have to delve into obscure command line utilities, or compile some open source project. I just have to find a way to get Evan’s masterpieces off the camera. And, no, I am not going to buy a Windows machine to do it. It’d be cheaper/easier to just buy a new Canon XTi and hand him my XT 🙂

Evans first camera

He’s been shooting pictures almost non-stop since I handed him the camera. That’s pretty cool.

I was at the mall with Evan today, and we popped through the Toys ‘R Us store. They had a cool looking little toy digital camera for $19, so I just had to pick it up for Evan to mess around with. The box said the software was only for Windows, but I just assumed that MacOSX would be able to see it magically, as it does for everything else that claims to be Windows-only.

No luck. I’ve been googling for drivers or apps or hacks, without any success. Does anyone know how to get pictures from a VuPoint Solutions DC-M1082-VP onto MacOSX? I don’t care if I have to delve into obscure command line utilities, or compile some open source project. I just have to find a way to get Evan’s masterpieces off the camera. And, no, I am not going to buy a Windows machine to do it. It’d be cheaper/easier to just buy a new Canon XTi and hand him my XT 🙂

Evans first camera

He’s been shooting pictures almost non-stop since I handed him the camera. That’s pretty cool.

**Update:** A command line utility called `gphoto` seems to talk to the camera. I haven’t tried it, but [there’s a howto by David Clark posted online](http://blog.dcclark.net/2009/05/how-to-gphoto-primer.html). (thanks to Daan for the tip!)

13 thoughts on “VuPoint toy camera and MacOSX?”

  1. I’ve emailed VuPoint, and may try to find someone in Jeilin Technologies for more info. I’d be willing to try hacking something together…

  2. no luck. he’s happy just clicking away, and hasn’t really realized that he hasn’t seen any of his photos. When he’s ready, I’ll get him a real one, or hand him the spare. He’s actually pretty good handling my Canon XT now – for a 4 year old 🙂

  3. Hey – I’ve got the same problem. I just bought a VuPoint KooCam DC-M30PR-VP for my uncle. He’s older (and doesn’t have a computer) but got very excited by the idea of taking his own pics. I bought him this cam for his birthday and here I sit trying to find something that will let this little thing run with my Mac. I didn’t read far enough into the description to realize that it didn’t have a removable card.

    Did you have any luck yet finding something that will make it work properly?

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