[ale] Digital Camera Help
Perry
perryw at bellsouth.net
Mon Feb 12 10:57:34 EST 2001
At 08:35 AM 2/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I am about to go out and purchase a digital camera. I am looking for
>something in the $300-$400 range. With that in mind, I think the Mavica
>can be left out. What other camera would have the ease of being able to
>be used in Windoze and Linux? I'm guessing it would be one w/ a USB
>connection.
Izzie, I have a Canon S100 Digital Elph camera that works like a charm
under Linux and Windows. Slightly out of your price range at $440 at
www.buy.com, but I love it. It's about the length and width of a pack of
cigarettes, but a wee bit thicker. Tiny. It uses USB and comes with a 8MB
CF card. Takes pictures at 1600x1200 or 640x480, nothing in
between. That's fine for me, I like the bigger format and can then resize
to suit my needs.
gPhoto, http://www.gphoto.org/, is a software package that supports tons of
digital cameras, both serial and USB. It didn't seem to like my S100, so I
tracked down another program on freshmeat that gives me a shell for
accessing the camera. Just cp the pictures right off it. Pretty cool.
-- perry
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