[CLUE-Talk] Seeking advice for a digital camera

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Monday 16 June 2003 06:28 pm, Jim Ockers wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> > Sane is for scanners, not really cameras. Check out www.gphoto.org for
> > that. However, I also back the suggestion of Kodak. I have had very
> > little problem with the 110, 120, 220, and 210.
>
> I have to say that gphoto2 is pretty handy.  I had to use a Canon PowerShot
> S20 today and gphoto2 was able to read the pictures off the camera with no
> problems, using the USB interface under a Linux 2.4.20 RedHat kernel.
>
> I would rather have the camera show up as a USB mass storage device so I
> can mount it as a VFAT filesystem; the gphoto command line interface is
> clumsy at best.
>
> However at least it worked under Linux, which is a major improvement over
> digital cameras even ~2 years ago.
>
> I see from the gphoto web pages that they still have mean things to say
> about Canon and their use of proprietary protocols, and their failure to
> release any useful information to the open source community.  You should
> vote with your wallet and DO NOT BUY A CANON for this reason.

Howdy jim (long time),

	Yeah, i agree. while gphoto works well with all these things, i cheat and 
simply use my sandisk/sddr-31 CF rw. It is much easier to do that. Baring 
that, I have actually thought of grabbing some of those cheap 640x480/$25 and 
see if they do a USB MSD. I was thinking that it was the perfect approach for 
kids or simply having a camera around for quick shots (when you paid 1500 for 
a camera, you tend to not expose it to the elements)
- -- 
cheers
g.r.r.
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