[CLUE-Talk] Seeking advice for a digital camera: Closure

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Thanx to everyone who answered.

I did some looking, both on-line and at local stores, and finally 
decided upon an Olympus Stylus 300 Digital. I picked it because it 
seemed more to be built stronger than other cameras in this price range 
(it has a metal body), is supposedly water-resistant, is point and 
shoot, and its reviews said good things about the pictures it took. On 
the Internet, it sold for anywhere from $294 on up to its list price of 
$399.
So I ordered one today, and hopefully it will be here in a week to allow 
me to expand my knowledge of digital picture-taking (I hestitate to call 
what I do photography).

In the meanwhile, my kid has a Fujifilm 2600 Zoom, which I am able to 
use under Red Hat 7.3. 

For the record, and anyone who might be reading this thread in the 
archives, here's what I did to use it: After loading the modules 
usb-uhci and usb-storage,  I connected the USB ports on the camera and 
PC with the cable that came with the camera, and then was able to access 
the camera chip by issuing "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera". To 
edit the pictures, I used gphoto.

Again, thanx to everyone who answered.

BOF