[CLUE-Tech] seeking a Kodak ...

[David Willson]

I would like to throw in my enthusiastic recommendation for an
alternated, the Kodak DC5000.  It does everything you want, up to 2
Megapixel, nevermind the points, which are always misquoted anyway.
The DC5000 is available for about $265 after shipping from Harmony
Computers.  Harmony is slow and unresponsive, but their prices rock.
About the cam:
gPhoto 4.3, as shipped in Red Hat 7.2, talks to it just fine, as a
DC280, on /dev/usb/dc2xx0.  gPhoto can be launched with switches to do
picture-taking, downloading and such-like from the CLI.
There are a half-dozen or so other CLI utilities that will talk to it. 
A bunch of them were on the LINUXformat CD for December 2001.
The image quality is as good as any other digital camera I've seen.  See
DHTML presentation source (ftp://mailman.thegeek.nu/pub/DHTML_class.tar)
for samples.
It is also water and dust resistant; there are little grommeted doors
over the ports and batteries, but NOT submersible.
I've had mine for about two months, have taken almost half a thousand
pix with it, and I am entirely pleased.

On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 11:06, Ed Hill wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Our lab is desperately seeking a digital camera that we can control
> (that is: shoot, download, delete-images-from-flash-card, and repeat)
> from a computer, preferably a Linux-based machine.
> 
> In the past, I've written PERL scripts calling the OpenDigita
> (http://ods.sourceforge.net) "ks" program for this purpose and it has
> worked well.  More recently, I've been trying to use the jPhoto
> (http://jphoto.sourceforge.net) interface to accomplish the same with
> newer (DX series) Kodak cameras.  I can get downloads to work with the
> DX models, but they do not support the image capture ("shoot")
> functionality.  Unfortunately, it appears that the only recently
> manufactured consumer-grade Kodak camera that supports this level of
> functionality is the DC-4800 model which has almost entirely disappeared
> from retail shelves.
> 
> So, would anyone of you consider trading one of the following models 
> 
>   - Kodak DC 4800
>   - Kodak DC 290
>   - Kodak DC 265
> 
> for a BRAND NEW 3.1 Mpixel Kodak DX-3900 and, potentially, some cash? 
> If you have a DC-4800, we'll consider covering part of the difference in
> cost.
> 
> If you have a friend with one of the above models, please pass this
> email along.
> 
> thanks for your help,
> Ed
> 
> ps - I'm researching the remode-control functionality of non-Kodak 
>      cameras and its a lot of docs to dig through.  If anyone can 
>      recommend or is even willing to swap for a model that supports 
>      the computer-control functionality we need, I'd be very grateful!
> 
> 
> -- 
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