On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 07:11 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:41, Andrew Sands wrote: > > > I am about to purchase both a digital camera and a digital video camera. Of > > course, I need to make sure that I can use both devices under Linux. > > I think that most of them these days can be used as USB mass storage devices > and are no problem under Linux. I do everything I want with my photos with > standard KDE applications and Imagemagick. > > If you want to use specific Digital Camera software (like gphoto) then there > are limitations as to what models can be used. > > We have 2 Fuji cameras here and when used with udev they are really easy to > mount.
Video cameras OTOH generally work with ieee1394. If you have a working firewire card, you should be able to get any digital video camera working with linux, although of course there may be odd quirks with odd bits of hardware. My view with a piece of generic hardware where there is such a variety available is to look around the shops and see what appears to be available that suits your budget and operational requirements. Always ask that difficult question what does this $1,000 model NOT do that the $3,000 one can do! Then with a narrower sample googling can prove quite effective. If its of any interest a recent article i read online maintained that the recorders that record direct to mini dvd are generally to be avoided. You then look at whether you want to use the available video editing tools on linux, or some of the far more polished and complete windows products. I recommend video vegas on windows. But you need to include that in your budget! kino is coming along nicely on linux, and has built in firewire tools. There was recently an article in linux journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7779 > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
