Add support for Minolta Dimage 2330 Zoom in 10.2

Feb 25, '03 05:58:00AM

Contributed by: i9kaihi

I have seen on different forums that people have problems getting Mac OS X to recognize Minolta's digital camera Dimage 2330 Zoom. This camera is supported by iTunes (according to Apple's compability list) but still, the camera is not recogniced by the system. So what´s wrong? It could be the fact that the camera is supported by the mass storage component and therefore supported by iTunes. However, to use the camera with the system, there should be some information about the product and vendor, and this is not coded anywhere in the system. In other words, the camera would work with OS X if Apple had provided codes for product and vendor. I believe that Apple has decided to let the product vendor provide this data, but in the case with this particular camera, Minolta doesn´t have any support for OS X, only for OS 9.x.

So what do we do now? Apple has support for the camera but has not provided any drivers. Minolta could provide drivers but they won't because it is only supported for older systems. Well, there is a soluton that worked for me. It´s an old one I found a year ago or so but it still works.

  1. Locate the folder /System -> Library -> Image Capture -> Devices. From this folder, copy the Type4Camera application file to folder /Library -> Image Capture -> Devices. You may have to create the folder Devices into the Image Capture folder).

  2. Control-click on the Type4Camera application file and choose Show Package Contents. Open the folder Contents.
  3. Open now the file info.plist and copy the code here to the first position in the file after the first <array> tag:
    <dict>
      <key>product</key>
      <string>0x4003</string>
      <key>vendor</key>
      <string>0x686</string>
    </dict>
  4. Save the file and restart. The system should now recognize the camera Dimage 2330 ZOOM.
The above worked for me and I have done the same in pre-OS X Jaguar systems. The only difference then was that the application file to change should be Type3Camera. So if the above doesn't work, then try Type3Camera application file.

[robg adds: No Minolta here to test this one with...]

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