On Friday 12 September 2003 13:16, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> I then printed it on my EPSON 720 dpi printer in color. The reason to use
> color for a black and white photograph is that the color of the "black" ink
> that Epson uses is not to my liking and I can adjust the blackness of the
> ink that way.
>
> Unless you look at it close up and see that it is pixelated it looks
> like a good hand done photgraphic print.
Nowadays, you can print your photos cheaply and easily by bringing your card /
CDROM to a lab which does printing from digital media. All in all, it might
even cost you less than inkjet supplies and glossy photo paper, and the
quality is exactly like regular ("analog") photos -- no visible dots or
patterns.
Re USB or serial: I don't think they make cameras with serial interface
nowadays. It's all USB (and sometimes even USB 2.0). Personally, I find the
USB 1.0 rates of my Olympus C730 (about 500kbyte/s) satisfactory. As a
general rule, any USB camera which is recognized as a Storage Device when you
plug it into a Windows box is usable under Linux (exactly like a
"disk-on-key"). When I first brought it home, I just plugged it into my Linux
2.4 box and it automatically got recognized as a storage device and appeared
in /dev as a "SCSI disk". Then I just mounted it as "vfat" and copied the
photos from the directory. The same on Windows 2000.
All in all, I never used used the CD I got with the camera on Linux nor on
Windows, except to get a PDF of the manual (the online version was much more
complete than the hard-copy).
Not all USB cameras work as USB storage devices. Some of them are supported by
GPhoto2 (download the latest version and do "gphoto2 --list-cameras"). The
kernel includes USB drivers for a few more models. For all the rest, you're
out of luck.
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