[GLLUG] digital cameras for unix

[Mike Szumlinski]

I've always been a big fan of Canon stuff myself.  I have an S230 right 
now that is a great camera.  I somewhat disagree with sean on the 
battery thing...having a rechargeable is a must for me.  The Canon's 
all use CF cards and just write JPG files to them, so if you can read 
from a CF card, you are good to go (regardless of OS).  If you want to 
go butt-nutty you can get one of the IBM microdrives and have a gig 
worth of picture taking space in your camera (thats like...a billion 
pictures or something).

I can't really give you any insight to what software will work on 
Linux/BSD because I use iPhoto...its just way way too easy to get 
everything where I want it with it (although it isn't perfect...yet).  
I'd recommend just figuring out how to get a USB CF flash reader to 
mount under whatever you use and try it out.

-Mike

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 04:30  PM, Matt Graham wrote:

> On Thursday 09 January 2003 15:47, after a long battle with technology,
> 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?
>
> Yes, gphoto is typically used for serial connections.  gphoto.org has a
> compatability list which is pretty up-to-date.  If possible, get
> something with a USB interface, as serial links are much slower.
>
> Yet another option is to purchase a USB {CompactFlash, SmartMedia, SD}
> adapter.  These show up as USB Mass Storage devices and should work
> even if your camera itself doesn't.  Unfortunately, it's another $30
> you'd have to spend.
>
> I'm currently using an Olympus D490Z that's about 1.5 years old... 
> works
> great with gphoto, should be available for fairly cheap if you can find
> it.  A friend's Mitsubishi USB camera also worked just fine without any
> extra fiddling... can't make sweeping generalizations since there are
> just so many cameras out there, but most of them *do* work.  Once
> you've narrowed your selection down to 4 or 5 models, try Googling for
> "$CAMERA_NAME Linux" and seeing what others have reported.
>
> Or if you have a laptop, bring that laptop to the camera store, ask to
> plug the demo model in and see if you can get it working with gphoto or
> the USB system.  Usually they'll let you do this.
>
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