[PLUG] Need hints buying a digital camera for a Linux household

Sean Whitney sean_whitney at bigfoot.com
Sat Apr 20 06:21:38 UTC 2002


One that note, Fry's (no war stories here please) is selling 128MB Smart 
Media Cards for 39.00.

Sean

On Friday 19 April 2002 13:40, you hammered at the keyboard:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Eric House wrote:
> > We're about to buy a digital camera, and will be using it mostly with
> > machines running Linux (Debian woody and potato).  This is our first
> > digital camera.  Are there any particular things to watch out for in
> > picking one out (e.g. "memory stick requires windoze")?  Any
> > models/makers y'all recommend or recommend against?
>
> Like Richard, I also have an Olympus that works great for me.  In fact,
> everyone I know with an Olympus (and mine's the lowest end of the bunch,
> the 360DL) is very happy with it.  That's just a recommendation.
>
> Personally, I like SmartMedia.  It's small and lightweight and
> inexpensive.  The only advantage of CompactFlash, to me, is the ability to
> buy a microdrive... but most of us don't need that kind of storage on our
> cameras.  Memory Stick is proprietary and I won't touch it on principle.
>
> I'd recommend buying a big chunk of media and an external reader when you
> get the camera.
>
> As for software, you'll find gphoto supports a very large number of the
> cameras out there right now.  I love it.  While it's not intuitively
> obvious at first, gphoto, when run with appropriate command line switches,
> never runs the gui.  I don't use the gui and wrote a little wrapper script
> that allows me to pass parameters that date and number my files as they're
> pulled from the camera.
>
> Anyway, if you have specific questions, ask around before you commit.
>
> J.

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