[olug] Digital Cameras and Linux

[Brian Wiese]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:42:40 -0600 (CST)
"Jeff Hinrichs" <jeffh at delasco.com> wrote:

|As to digital photography, stay away from connecting your camera to the
|computer.  Get a media reader for the particular media your camera uses. 
|Make  sure you can operate the media reader via linux by mounting it as a
|removable drive.  

This saves batteries and tends to be much faster for me.

|Most media readers are USB or firewire.  Go fire if you are going to be
|shooting alot as it is faster but $$.  USB is still faster than serial.

USB support is pretty common in gnu/linux, so you can usually just power
on/plug in your camera via USB and just mount it as fat32.	mount -t vfat
/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

|Go for at least 2megapixels, 4-5 is mid range now.  I've got a 4Mpx Nikon
|that I'm happy with.  Uses compact flash.  Cheap media, slower write time
|than film.  I'd also recommend to go with a few smaller (32/64mb ) cards
|instead of a big 256MB.  The bigger the card the longer the access time.
|-jeff

I use smartmedia, any comments on this?  I like it cuz it's thinner. =)  I
would also recommend a few 64mb cards (esp with 1280 res or higher), you
wont have to worry about changing cards constantly, and when you're full -
load new in a new stick of 'film'.

I have a fujifilm 2300 but I wouldn't recommend it now, it's old and slow
imho, compared to all the 'new' stuff.  But has always worked fine. =)

I'm using a compact flash/smart media card reader. model number: CR-V6-UCS
and it seems to work fine. Unfortunately, compgeeks is currently out of
stock. =(

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CR-V6-UCS

peace

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