Looking to purchase a new digital camera, suggestions?

esammons · n00b Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 4

I have been looking at purchasing a digital camera. However, in buying a digital camera I would like very much to acquire one that will work with Linux and more specifically Gentoo.

Any suggestions / success stories?

Thanks!
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fzimper · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Germany

If they didn't change that in the latest models (I use an older one) Olympus cameras are seen as a USB mass storage device. You can simply mount them like a cdrom or a hard drive.

Though I have to say that I use a USB card reader that is able to handle CF and SM cards as my camera takes both. I set up my PC to use automount for the USB card reader, so I just plug it in and change to the appropriate directory.

Woland · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 8:35 am Post subject:

I am in the same boat, I'm also looking for a digital camera. To that end, I emerged gphoto2, and took a look at what is supported.

However, after nosing aroung their site, I came across a list of the camera's they support.

However, if you do wind up emerging gphoto, the command gphoto2 --list-cameras will give a much fuller list.

Keep in mind, that just because a camera is not on the list, does not mean you can't use it---if you don't mind going the card reader route.