Re: [SLE] digital cameras..

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 15:14, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Doug McGarrett [09-15-04 09:02]:

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Canon has at least one camera that uses standard lenses from 35 mm cameras. It's an SLR, and it has been fairly expensive. I haven't tried it, but a friend of mine swears by the Canon line, and has produced extremely nice pictures with it. If you are somewhere with a decent camera store, why not try one out? They might even rent you one for a couple of days.

Notice that Canon refuses to support linux and/or allow access to source for drivers.

Also, *any* digital camera that supports removable media which has a usb-card-reader available and writes files in non-proprietary format is compatable with linux distros that support usb.

I have a Nikon D70 SLR, and that writes jpegs and Nikon's RAW format in addition. The Gimp plugins available at: http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ and http://ptj.rozeta.com.pl/Soft/RawPhoto make it possible to deal with the Nikon and other RAW formats and other proprietary raw image formats. D70 is a nice camera, too, in my very amateur and inexperienced judgement. HTH Fergus

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