> The only major drawbacks to this camera:
My biggest complaint about the camera was it's "auto-focus"
feature was way too slow. And with the camera being balanced,
or not balanced, the way it is, actually pressing the "take a
picture" button could often cause the camera to move just ever
so sl
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> This made me think the floppy thing was not viable. How does it
> work out for you?
>
I'll put in another recommendation for the Mavica. I bought an ancient
Sony Mavica FD-73 about a month ago and it does exactly what I need
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 19:53:33 Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > John S. J. Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > > On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > >
> > > Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> John S. J. Anderson wrote:
>
> > > On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital
> > Ilya> camera which can be used with Li
> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> My advice is to buy a camera that uses media that is
Brian> supported in Linux. I own a Kodak DC280, which uses
Brian> CompactFlash media, and a USB card reader that is perfectly
Brian> supported in Linux. I never c
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:27:33AM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote:
> 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
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:06:06PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about buying cheap digital camera for myself. Right now
> I'm going to buy Olympus CAMEDIA C-860L. However I worry about its
> so-existance with Linux. Have anybody used it? Is it possible to
> transfer pictu
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:21:20PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| > 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 tha
> 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 inte
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 ther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. J. Anderson) writes:
> I think the feeding floppies to the computer part is, long-term, going
> to be the most annoying part;
http://scrapbook.sourceforge.net has a mavcopy program which makes
things somewhat nicer... wrapped in a small script which I need to put
in the
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:39:20 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
Peter> John S. J. Anderson wrote:
Peter> I have wondered about this. I fill up a 32MB memory card
Peter> pretty quickly when taking pictures at 3.1Mpixels. A single
Peter> picture is usually around 1.1
John S. J. Anderson wrote:
> > On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital
> Ilya> camera which can be used with Linux?
>
> Have you considered the Sony Mavica series? They write picture files
>
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. g
> On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital
Ilya> camera which can be used with Linux?
Have you considered the Sony Mavica series? They write picture files
to standard VFAT filesystem floppy disks --
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