[GLLUG] digital cameras for unix

[Sean]

Actually I have always preferred the cameras with USB and a removeable 
disks (ie compatct flash) they are both faster than serial and compatible 
with more things. A card reader for the removal media is nice for not 
wearing out your batteries, plus the media is really cheap and it is 
usually faster than camera. 

Stay away from I/Omagic they use a proprietary hardware compression 
algorithm and they flat out wont work with anything but windows. (well 
unless you want to write the decryption code for it..)

Usually the people will be up front about the file formats of the image 
files like tiff, jpeg, etc. which you should be okay with a supported 
card reader even if the camera itself isnt supported. 

I don't know anything about gphoto. I don't even use iPhoto. =)

Sean 

PS I always try to stay away from non-standard batteries too. It is really 
convenient when your batteries run out to goto the drugstore for them 
rather than to wait for them to charge up again. 






On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Brian Hoort wrote:

> I'm thinking about purchasing an inexpensive digital camera, and would like 
> it to work on GNU/Linux. After a short bit of web surfing, it looks like 
> cameras either connect with gphoto or the USB mass storage driver. Does 
> this mean that any that connect with gphoto are serial connections? Which 
> do you recommend? Are there any other issues or suggestions you all have 
> for me?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Brian
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