Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:57:28 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Large Message-ID: Subject: RE: [SLE] Digtal camera I think i found the right place to look at www.linux-usb.org. It would appear that i can just plug i the camera to the usb port. I have set it up on windows but my windows machine is slow and i don't want to up. My SuSE box is far better so it try to use it for most stuff. Thanks again

I just checked out the specs and it looks like your camera uses CompactFlash memory, just like my DC200. This may not be much help, since I have only used it under Windows, but there are options.

Check out http://www.sandisk.com. They invented and make this type of memory. They offer USB and parallel port versions of media adapters, that allow you to access the media independently of the camera. My personal preference has been the PCMCIA adapter, which works great. I can plug the media directly into a laptop, and with the addition of a PCMCIA adapter in my PC (about $40 from Ebay) I can plug it straight into there as well. This type of media spoofs being a hard drive in the Windows world, so you simply use your favourite file manager to drag and drop the files from the media to the local hard drive. With the right drivers, I would imagine it is simply a matter of mounting the media to a folder in your filesystem, just like any other type of removable media. Remember though, only ever format the media in the camera.

I think the speeds go as follows, from slowest to fastest: Serial->Parallel->PCMCIA->USB

I may be wrong about the last two, but either of them is a vastly superior choice to the first two. By the way, Ebay is also a good place to pick up cheap media.

Hope this offered at least a modicum of help, Stuart.

-----Original Message----- From: suse-linux-e-return-41863-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@lists.suse.com [mailto:suse-linux-e-return-41863-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@lists.suse .com]On Behalf Of Chris Large Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 3:01 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Digtal camera

I have just bought a Kodak DC3400 digtal camera. Is there a way to download the pictures in to SuSE?

It comes with a USB and serial connector if that helps. Or is there a better digital camera out there that will work with SuSE?

It seems to use my scanner software that is on win95 to get it's pictures but my scanner won't work on linux at all.

Thanks

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From: Álvaro A. Novo Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:09:22 -0600 Message-Id: <00120614092204.01145@friedman> Subject: Re: [SLE] Digtal camera On Monday 04 December 2000 07:05, Don Hansford wrote:

Try using gPhoto (on the CD, at least in 6.4). You just tell it what port to look at, and what camera to find there. See man gphoto HTH

This is absolutely fantastic! I had been looking for such program for a while now. The only reason why I booted into W$ was to get my digital photos (Sony DCR-PC100E), now I am W$ free! Thanks a zillion, Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 -=- Kernel 2.2.16 -=- KDE 2.0.0-0 2:08pm up 16:11, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

From: Bernd Felsche Message-Id: <200012070317.LAA11435@flywheel.innovative.iinet.net.au> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:08:26 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [SLE] Digtal camera Michael tapped away at the keyboard with:

Don't try loading a directory w/ hundreds of files though. At least for me Photo always crashes when it experiences a large directory. But then only nuts (like me) leave a camera going 24/7 flick'n a pic 15 times a second. ;>

Maybe you should create a new directory for every 10 seconds, within a directory per minute, those within one per hour and those within one per day. i.e. hash sort the pictures using the directory hierarchy. /image_root/year/month/day/hour/minute/sec_10/image_num -- /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus! | X against HTML mail | Copy me into your ~/.signature| / \ and postings | to help me spread! |