Re: what digital camera?
Kate wrote: Any suggestions out there for a moderately priced digital camera that is linux friendly? I'm using SuSE 6.2 Does it matter? I've never used one before, nor seen one used. -- Kate http://www.katewerk.com i'm using the sony dsc-f505v. well. not cheap but great. ;-)) pro: -makes excellent macro and tele pictures. (integrated 10x digital zoom) -with 64mb-card (expensive) you can store a LOT of pictures in the cam. -records movies (320x200) up to 15seconds -comes with extern powersupply + accu charger con: -uses USB and is only supported by linux 2.4.x so you might want to use other cams that dont require you to compile a new kernel. -expensive. i bought it for 2300 DM + 300DM for the 64MB stick. thats about 1300EUR christoph
Re: what digital camera?
Dne St, 30 srp 2000 jste napsal(a): Any suggestions out there for a moderately priced digital camera that is linux friendly? I'm using SuSE 6.2 Does it matter? I've never used one before, nor seen one used. The best amateur camera I know of is the Olympus Camedia 3030zoom. I went for a cheaper, but still great Ricoh RDC-5000 (they now sell only the little better 5300). Both cameras are supported under Linux (serial gPhoto and Camedia USB/gPhoto, while RiCOH works with usb-storage module so you can mount the internal memory and the flash card and work with it as a normal drive (great for GIMP ;)). You can check out some shots on http://emar.kin.vslib.cz/jimmac/gpl/macro/ (ricoh) http://tigert.gimp.org/files/photos/Stock-images-GPL/ (tigert's camedia 3030z) If you have enough cash, I'd go for the Camedia, since it has a bigger resolution, better quality at that resolution, can save TIFFs, record sound, capture movies and looks a little sexier ;). Still I'm very happy with the cheaper ricoh... Jakub -- -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-[ http://hideout.musichall.cz ]- "even a stopped clock gives a right time twice a day"
Re: what digital camera?
Is it possible/realistic to use a video camera and something like broadcast2000 to choose individual frames from the video and save them as jpg, tif, etc. Scott Durrant Human Genetics University of Utah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what digital camera?
Another vote for Nikon - I got a Coolpix 850 in a selloff for about $460 new, and find the image quality and automatic functions excellent. However, I haven't avoided unloading the photos in MSWin yet. (Similarly, and unfortunately, my best printing quality is from MSWin at present.) On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jon Winters wrote: My PCMCIA bay is an Antec DataChute ISA. I'll keep my eyes open for something like that, or even better would be to have my Sandisk USB ImageMate work in Linux. Regards - John Mills
Re: what digital camera?
I like my Nikkon Coolpix. However anything that uses flash memory will work just fine on Linux. You just need a flash adaptor. Then you mount it like a hard drive and copy the images over. This is obviously easiest/cheapest on a laptop. On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kate wrote: Any suggestions out there for a moderately priced digital camera that is linux friendly? I'm using SuSE 6.2 Does it matter? I've never used one before, nor seen one used. -- Kate http://www.katewerk.com --Ames -- "Fine! Then I'm just gonna take my laptop and go home!!!" Amy L. Abascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Design Chic, VA Linux Systems www.valinux.com Web Design Chic, Silicon Valley Linux Users Groupwww.svlug.com --
Re: what digital camera?
I was about to say the same thing as Amy. I'm using the Nikon Coolpix 950 and a cheapo PCMCIA adapter. I just mount the CF cards like little FAT partitions. Its actually easier to copy images in Linux than it is in Windows. My PCMCIA bay is an Antec DataChute ISA. Shop for any camera that uses Compact Flash or any other memory that has an inexpensive PCMCIA adapter. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ "Everybody loves the GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
Re: what digital camera?
here's a url that might help http://www.digital-camerastore.com/whichcamera.htm i'd try to go with a usb connection. Scott Durrant Human Genetics University of Utah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-08-30 at 0946.59 -0600): Any suggestions out there for a moderately priced digital camera that is linux friendly? I'm using SuSE 6.2 I would get the list of supported ones by gphoto http://www.gphoto.org/. The README and FAQ of the distro seem to the list of cameras. Does it matter? I've never used one before, nor seen one used. Well, yes if you want to use your images in Linux without rebooting. The gphoto docs also have some advices about quality and related details. GSR
Re: what digital camera?
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: I would get the list of supported ones by gphoto http://www.gphoto.org/. The README and FAQ of the distro seem to the list of cameras. Although gphoto works well when it works, I have seen a lot of people have trouble with it (even on "supported" cameras). FYI, gphoto is an app that allows you to upload pics from your camera to your pc via serial link. Does it matter? I've never used one before, nor seen one used. Well, yes if you want to use your images in Linux without rebooting. The gphoto docs also have some advices about quality and related details. Without rebooting? Why would you ever have to reboot? You can mount a drive without rebooting -- especially when that's a pcmcia card drive. One of the beauties of Linux is never rebooting. FYI, I haven't rebooted my laptop in 2 weeks and the last time I rebooted was because I forgot to put it to sleep so the battery ran out. --Ames -- "Fine! Then I'm just gonna take my laptop and go home!!!" Amy L. Abascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Design Chic, VA Linux Systems www.valinux.com Web Design Chic, Silicon Valley Linux Users Groupwww.svlug.com --
Re: what digital camera?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-08-30 at 1158.04 -0700): Without rebooting? Why would you ever have to reboot? You can mount a drive without rebooting -- especially when that's a pcmcia card drive. One of the beauties of Linux is never rebooting. FYI, I haven't rebooted my laptop in 2 weeks and the last time I rebooted was because I forgot to put it to sleep so the battery ran out. Oooh, when I mean reboot I mean "reboot to Windows, get the images, reboot to Linux, use them". Like with WinModems and Internet (lucky me, all my hardware work with Linux). My Univ server rebooted after a nice over 115 day uptime due a serious power outage that used all the UPS (I can not exactly determine, cos I do not have an uptime daemon, and I do not check uptime everyday, so is just "IIRC around 6 days it was 111, so it must be something more than 115"). And I turn off my home computer cos the fans and the SCSI disks are too noisy to sleep when less than 2 m away. So I know you do not have to reboot a Unix (not only Linux) for most of things (hardware faliure, kernel upgrade, hardware upgrade, power loss, OS change are good reasons to... at least until PCs can hot swap all parts, not just PCMCIA or similar). Thanks for reminding me that. I believed I had to reboot every 2 hours or each program install (whichever occurs first). ;] GSR
