I'm probably going to get a digital camera (USB). I want a GOOD one, but not willing to pay an "arm and a leg" for it. What GOOD cameras are supported in 7.0, and does it take an "act of Congress" to get it to work properly. Thanks! Fred -- Fred A. Miller Systems Admin. Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org
Fed "Fred A. Miller" wrote:
I'm probably going to get a digital camera (USB). I want a GOOD one, but not willing to pay an "arm and a leg" for it. What GOOD cameras are supported in 7.0, and does it take an "act of Congress" to get it to work properly.
When you say digital camera I'm supposing that you mean a still camera for some good photographs ? If that's so then Gphoto is your friend. It supports most cameras including the Nikon digital cameras that are so expensive. Works very well in SuSE 7.0. I've even got the Helixcode version working as well. If you want mid range prices then spending about $300 to $600 should produce the kind of results that most people want. You can spend less if you shop online. I'm using an Olympus C-960 Z which I got hold of for about $450. The mid-range setting on that camera produces 6"x8" prints that are quite good on something like an Epson printer with glossy paper. There's also a hi-res setting and a low-res setting. This uses a normal jack plug into the camera and plugs into COM1 in the back of a notebook or PC. All of the ones I've seen use smartmedia cards which can be taken out of the camera and plugged into an accessory which looks like a floppy disk. This can be placed into a floppy drive on any computer and the pictures are downloaded from the card into the computer. There's a lot of them out there. I've been using Leica, Nikon, Hasselblad, Sinar and even 16 m/m film and all the others for twenty years - although the film bit was only for a short while. So, I think you know where I'm coming from here ?? Unusually the digital version of the Kodak box brownie isn't too bad. Have a look around Olympus, Nikon, Canon and Fuji. Plenty of choice there :)) Thanks -- Richard
Richard , where do you get Gphoto from ? Does it work with USB and 7.0 or am I stuck with the serial cable thing ? I have a casio QV-3000 that has an ibm micro drive , hold a ton of pictures , but eats up batteries. allways keeep at least one extra set of batries, and use the ac adapter when transfrering to pc ect.. At 04:07 PM 1/22/2001 +0000, Richard wrote:
Fed
"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
I'm probably going to get a digital camera (USB). I want a GOOD one, but not willing to pay an "arm and a leg" for it. What GOOD cameras are supported in 7.0, and does it take an "act of Congress" to get it to work properly.
When you say digital camera I'm supposing that you mean a still camera for some good photographs ?
If that's so then Gphoto is your friend. It supports most cameras including the Nikon digital cameras that are so expensive. Works very well in SuSE 7.0. I've even got the Helixcode version working as well.
If you want mid range prices then spending about $300 to $600 should produce the kind of results that most people want. You can spend less if you shop online. I'm using an Olympus C-960 Z which I got hold of for about $450. The mid-range setting on that camera produces 6"x8" prints that are quite good on something like an Epson printer with glossy paper. There's also a hi-res setting and a low-res setting. This uses a normal jack plug into the camera and plugs into COM1 in the back of a notebook or PC. All of the ones I've seen use smartmedia cards which can be taken out of the camera and plugged into an accessory which looks like a floppy disk. This can be placed into a floppy drive on any computer and the pictures are downloaded from the card into the computer.
There's a lot of them out there. I've been using Leica, Nikon, Hasselblad, Sinar and even 16 m/m film and all the others for twenty years - although the film bit was only for a short while. So, I think you know where I'm coming from here ??
Unusually the digital version of the Kodak box brownie isn't too bad. Have a look around Olympus, Nikon, Canon and Fuji. Plenty of choice there :))
Thanks
-- Richard
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On 22-Jan-01 Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Richard , where do you get Gphoto from ? Does it work with USB and 7.0 or am I stuck with the serial cable thing ? I have a casio QV-3000 that has an ibm micro drive , hold a ton of pictures , but eats up batteries. allways keeep at least one extra set of batries, and use the ac adapter when transfrering to pc ect..
I have got a Kodak DC240 and always used to take the CF card out and out it into a pcmcia adapter and put it into my Linux laptop and NFS the pictures onto my main machine. Now I have a desktop with USB I tried the usb connection to the camera. It works well, though I have some issues with the way gphoto names the images (I would like it to be able to preserve the filename used on the CF). Peter Onion. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Peter Onion <ponion@srd.bt.co.uk> Date: 23-Jan-01 Time: 10:38:10 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
At 10:41 AM 1/23/2001 -0000, Peter Onion wrote:
On 22-Jan-01 Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Richard , where do you get Gphoto from ? Does it work with USB and 7.0 or am I stuck with the serial cable thing ? I have a casio QV-3000 that has an ibm micro drive , hold a ton of pictures , but eats up batteries. allways keeep at least one extra set of batries, and use the ac adapter when transfrering to pc ect..
I have got a Kodak DC240 and always used to take the CF card out and out
it into
a pcmcia adapter and put it into my Linux laptop and NFS the pictures onto my main machine.
whats envolved in getting usb working ? Is it in the stock kernal ? All you need to do is plug in the usb caable ?
Now I have a desktop with USB I tried the usb connection to the camera. It works well, though I have some issues with the way gphoto names the images (I would like it to be able to preserve the filename used on the CF).
Peter Onion.
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On Monday 22 January 2001 14:53, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm probably going to get a digital camera (USB). I want a GOOD one, but not willing to pay an "arm and a leg" for it. What GOOD cameras are supported in 7.0, and does it take an "act of Congress" to get it to work properly.
Thanks!
Fred
Hi, I have a Sony DSC P1 which is the "bees knees" ( a quaint English saying) The camera connects through the usb-storage module and functions as another drive. Add to fstab, create a directory and away you go. It took me a while to find the info but linux-usb.org came through along with a couple of guys who had posted comments on that site. (Plus my own lack of Linux knowledge did not help) -- Stu "The specification said Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux"
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