Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-13 Thread Neil Booth
Hi all, Thanks for the very useful info. With this, and having found gphoto.org and noticing gphoto comes with Debian, I have everything I need to buy a camera that works with Linux. Cheers, Neil.

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-13 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 06:19:25PM -0800, Wade Curry wrote: > Good starter cameras ($300 range) check out the Olympus D-340R, HP C-200, > Fuji MX-1200. All of the cameras in this range are a little slow between > pics. > They are 1MegaPixel cameras, so the image quality is just OK for web and 4X

Re: Digital cameras and Linux (fwd)

1999-12-13 Thread Nathan York
i was wondering if any of you have had any experience with the camediaplay program, i got it while upgrading to potato. i have an olympus D-340R and was wondering about it, or is gplay the way to go. -- Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-13 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 08:10:34AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I now have an Olympus. It's the second one. The first one died > mysteriously (I think my son dropped it in the toilet). My wife > was due with my second child any minute. I called them, told them > it died and I needed

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-13 Thread Wade Curry
Neil Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned > about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the > cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the > images to Windows. > > Does anyone

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Dec, Mike Werner wrote about "Re: Digital cameras and Linux" > "(Ted Harding)" wrote: >> It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly >> to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the >> earliest

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Werner
"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly > to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the > earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you > (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know -

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Charles Lewis
> On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: > > > >> I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned > >> about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the > >> cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloadin

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: > >> I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned >> about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the >> cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the >> im

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've had 2. First a Kodak DC25 that worked well. I ended up using a combination of tools with a C proggy a gentleman wrote along time ago. It worked, but it wasn't pretty. I now have an Olympus. It's the second one. The first one died mysteriously (I think my son dropped it in the toilet).

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Matthew Bloch
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: > I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned > about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the > cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the > images to Windows. > > Does anyone know if