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Anthony,
> But can anyone recommend a (recent) Digital Camera that is known to work
> with Linux?
> I believe that most of the cameras use some sort of "memory stick" that
> can be put into some sort of PCMCIA device that just looks like a drive
> with DOS format files on it.. but some don't do this.. and some have
> proprietary files on it..
My recommendation is to buy either a Nikon CoolPix 800, or a Nikon CoolPix 990.
The Coolpix 800 is now around $1300, and the 990 is around $2K.
Both Nikon models use CompactFlash cards for their memory. The 800 is capable
of outputting 1600 x 1200 TIF and JPEG images, the 990 is capable of outputting
2048 x 1536 w/ 3x optical zoom. You don't want a camera that has a million x
digital zoom with no optical zoom.
I have a Coolpix 800, and it's been worth every cent. I can plug in the 128meg
CF card into the camera, and take over 140 high-quality JPG's before having to
stop, eject the card, put in the 64meg CF Card, and start taking more photos :)
The way I get the images off the camera is to eject the CF Card, put it into a
CF Card adapter (PCMCIA adapter), and stick it into my laptop. The card is
recognised by PCMCIA-CS ok, and I can mount it as a FAT filesystem in the usual
manner. CP the images across, and rm them from the CF card... very simple.
The interesting thing about this scheme is that I think the IBM microdrives will
work with these cameras, and thus I could theoretically get over a gig of memory
into the camera.
You don't want to get one of the cameras with floppy disk storage - 2mega-pixel
cameras generally write something between 400 and 1meg images. TIF images are
far more expensive, but they're brilliant shots. My experience has been that
the SmartMedia cards are generally problematic - one of my friends bought an
Olympus digital camera with SmartMedia support, bought a 64meg SM card, and the
camera wouldn't support it.
If you want a more professional digital camera, there's the Nikon D1 @ $10k.
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