Re: what digital camera?

2000-09-01 Thread Christoph Rauch
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:

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-31 Thread Jakub Steiner
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

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-31 Thread Scott Durrant
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?

2000-08-31 Thread John Mills
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

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-30 Thread Amy
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

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-30 Thread Jon Winters
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

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-30 Thread Scott Durrant
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]

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-30 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[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.

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-30 Thread Amy
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

Re: what digital camera?

2000-08-30 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[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