On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 21:00, John Layt wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:26, Wojciech Podg�rni wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > I've got another hardware question. My brother is considering buying a > > digital camera. My question is - do digital cameras work well with > > Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official? Which one work the best with Linux? What > > applications should I use? > > > > Wojciech Podg�rni > > > > PS. I write it from my newly installed Mandrake 10.1 OE. It looks great, > > but I have had some troubles with installing it (particularily with > > userdrake). > > Digital cameras used to be a problem, with every manufacturer having their > own control/transfer protocol which the GPhoto project had to reverse > engineer. These days, however, almost all new (quality) cameras have the > ability to be mounted as a USB portable drive, which the industry (or at > least Canon) refers to as PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol). > > When checking the spec sheets, look for some mention of PTP, driverless > install, or usb drive or something similar and you are almost guaranteed it > will work. > > Otherwise, check out the GPhoto web-site at http://gphoto.org/ for a > somewhat out-dated list of their supported cameras. > > From personal experience, all the new Canon cameras with PTP work > perfectly. > > For applications, it's hard to go past the latest version of Digikam at > http://digikam.sourceforge.net/Digikam-SPIP/ . They've just released > version 0.7 which is an absolute cracker, but it involves compiling for > now. Hopefully some rpms will be out soon. > > John.
As someone said, Kodak cameras generally do work, but they still use their own transfer protocol, unlike most other brands. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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