On Tuesday 19 August 2003 19:10, Darrell Cormier wrote:

I am contemplating the purchase of a digital camera. I have been looking at the following: FujiFilm FinePix S602 Nikon Coolpix 5700 Olympus C-5050 I have the Fuji FinePix S602Z

When connecting via USB it recognises the cards as a mass media storage device and I can access it /dev/sdx style mounts, e.g.: jjeffels@sakura:~> mount /media/sda1 jjeffels@sakura:~> cd /media/sda1/ jjeffels@sakura:/media/sda1> ls dcim jjeffels@sakura:/media/sda1> cd dcim jjeffels@sakura:/media/sda1/dcim> ls 100_fuji jjeffels@sakura:/media/sda1/dcim> cd 100_fuji/ jjeffels@sakura:/media/sda1/dcim/100_fuji> ls dscf0017.jpg dscf0026.jpg dscf0053.jpg dscf0062.jpg dscf0071.jpg dscf0018.jpg dscf0045.jpg dscf0054.jpg dscf0063.jpg dscf0072.jpg dscf0019.jpg dscf0046.jpg dscf0055.jpg dscf0064.jpg dscf0073.jpg dscf0020.jpg dscf0047.jpg dscf0056.jpg dscf0065.jpg dscf0074.jpg dscf0021.jpg dscf0048.jpg dscf0057.jpg dscf0066.jpg dscf0075.jpg dscf0022.jpg dscf0049.jpg dscf0058.jpg dscf0067.jpg dscf0076.jpg dscf0023.jpg dscf0050.jpg dscf0059.jpg dscf0068.jpg dscf0077.jpg dscf0024.jpg dscf0051.jpg dscf0060.jpg dscf0069.jpg dscf0078.jpg dscf0025.jpg dscf0052.jpg dscf0061.jpg dscf0070.jpg dscf0079.jpg It mounts it as a standard disk :) You can copy those jpeg files to your harddisk and edit them with Gimp or any other proggy that can handle jpegs. I have not got the PC Cam bit working, but the fact is that I bought it as a camera rather than a webcam, and it does that job superbly. I have bought a card-reader though as I want to save wear and tear on the small port on the camera that connects to USB. Lovely camera, nice quality of images, great control of the picture you take, nice high resolution viewfinder [in colour] and it has played happily with my 8.0, 8.1, AND 8.2 boxes :) I have no experience of the other cameras. Have fun :)

Darrell Cormier (linuxdev@sptc.net) wrote:

I am contemplating the purchase of a digital camera. I have been looking at the following: FujiFilm FinePix S602 Nikon Coolpix 5700 Olympus C-5050

I have Olympus C-5050 and I am VERY satisfied with it - it support many types of cards, use standard AA batteries, but I don't connect the camera directly to computer 'cause I don't have AC adapter and don't like to drain my batteries for transferring pics from camera to computer. Therefore, I highly recommend you to buy some cheap card reader (I have Sandisk's CF reader + Oly xD-->CF adapter for xD cards) and save your batteries. It works similar to connecting to camera directly ie. mount the reader, it becomes soemthing like /dev/sdb1 and then you work as with any other folder. Hope it helps. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour@mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

Em Ter, 2003-08-19 às 15:10, Darrell Cormier escreveu:

I am new to digital cameras so please forgive me if I ask a stupid question. Has anyone had experience with these within SuSE. I am using SuSE 8.2 Pro and would like to know how easy/difficult it will be to use these cameras and download/process images using SuSE. I am hoping to start processing my own families photos and avoid portrait studios. Any information will be appreciated.

I have a Canon PowerShot A200 and use it on SuSE Linux 8.2 without any hassle. Other readers have already told you that you can mount supported USB cameras like any other removable media, and access the data on them like you do with CD-ROMs or floppies. But I felt the need to add that you can use gphoto (and digikam, its front-end) to easily access the pictures on your supported USB cam. The list of supported cams for gphoto is at http://www.datebo.com/areas/linux/photo/ Good luck! Augusto -- Augusto Campos