On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:11:53AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:06:06PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: > > Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital camera > > which can be used with Linux? > > Check out www.gphoto.org. There is a compatibility list there. gphoto > is packaged for Debian but supports very few current models. gphoto2 is > under development and supports many more cameras. I bought a Canon > Powershot A20 which is not specifically supported, but a simple patch to > gphoto2 did the trick and I can now move pictures to and from my camera > from my Debian machines. This is especially useful on my laptop so that > I now have capacious storage for pictures when I'm on the road. > --
Yes, gphoto is cool. I bought a Camedia 360L not too long after they came out. It wasnt specifically supported by gphoto, but by selecting a similar sounding model from the same manufacturer, I was able to get acceptable results. However, by attempting to use certian features (that I really didnt need anyway) I was able to get gphoto to crash repeatibly. Obvious solution: "Dont do that!" Anyway, I am happy with gphoto and am glad to hear that it continues to be developed. Addressing other comments in this thread, I too considered getting a floppy based camera, since floppys are obviously portable to Linux. I rejected that idea because it would be a slow, cumbersome way to handle that much data. I looked for a camera that communicated via a serial interface. Based on my experience with this, I would say that serial is marginally fast enought for my 1.3 Mpixel camera, but not fast enough for 3.1 Mpixels. I stayed away from usb at the time I bought my camera because I did not consider usb support in Linux to be stable/mature enough. If I were buying a camera today, however, I would look seriously at trying to put together a gphoto + usb solution under kernel 2.4.x. Firewire, if it could be made to work for this, would be even cooler. My 2 cents Mike >
