Why do so few web cams and digital cameras have WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) drivers?

Posted: 04-21-2008, 09:40 PM

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I'm writing software that needs to control a digital camera to automate some data collection. I read up on WIA, wrote my program, and then discovered that only a couple of my older, crummier cameras support WIA.

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