Re: [tlug] Digital Camera Choices: Canon IXY 320 ?

["Martin Arballo" <martinarballo@example.com>]

thank you Jim
now I will try again to download pictures in linux with the instructions you showed.
I couldn't do it by myself.
Martin :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim O'Connell" <oconnell@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] Digital Camera Choices: Canon IXY 320 ?


The majority of digital cameras just act as USB hard drives - 
For mine, I made a mountpoint mkdir /mnt/cam
Then added the line:
/dev/sda1 /mn/cam vfat rw,auto,user,exec 0 0

to /etc/fstab
then  just mount it as needed

I'd just really focus (heh.) on the quality of the camera - I doubt you'll have any unresolvable issues with Linux.
My friend has the Digital IXY and seems to take very nice pics with it - I have a Fuji FinePix 40i that's served me well the last few years. I do prefer the CF media to the SmartMedia that the Fuji uses - the slight additional bulk seems to make them a bit harder to lose...

As to your other point about the camera's file types - I'm pretty sure they're all Jpeg now.  Way back when, the Kodak Dc-120 (and others) used a proprietary format.  The earliest Casios used one that was like a funky stretched Jpeg, IIRC.  

I hope she enjoys it!
Jim

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:24:50 +0900
"Martin Arballo" <martinarballo@example.com> wrote:

> I am not sure about how to download the pictures in linux, 
> I failed when I tried to do it, and I didn't try again, sorry for that,
> but I know a little about cameras.
> Most of the digital cameras come with a soft in a CD, for Japanese windows and for English windows,
> and the camera menu is possible to be set in many lunguages, like japanese, english, 
> and all the languages spoken in the European Comunity.
> I think she does not need any software because I am downloading my pictures directly into photoshop from
> a Canon F100 Powershot I bought here 2 month ago.
> Martin
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim" <tim@example.com>
> To: <tlug@example.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:05 PM
> Subject: [tlug] Digital Camera Choices: Canon IXY 320 ?
> 
> 
> Hello TLUG,
> 
> 
> Hoping to get some info here.
> I am about to buy a Digital camera as a Birthday present.
> 
> Her set up:
>    Japanese Windows2000 notebook
> My set-up:
>    Dual boot: SuSE 8.0 Pro / Win98 English
> 
> Can someone confirm / correct:
>   I have found the Canon IXY 320 in Japan which seems to stick to most
> standards and store pictures on CF cards which I should be able to
> access as JPG files on my Linux system, right?
> 
>   For the USB downloading, she will need Windows software.  I think
> that on my Linux system, I can use the gphoto2 package found through a
> google search on the issue.
> 
> I will be going to San Fransisco for work soon, and was thinking of
> getting the USA version of the same camera.  Does anyone know if
> buying the Japanese Canon IXY 320 or the USA Canon Powershot S230
> makes any difference depending on the language of the operating
> system?
> 
> Any other linux compatible cameras to be recomended instead?  I do not
> like the idea of requiring software to retrive the pictures, so native
> storage as JPG or PNG is a bonus as it is more likely to work across
> OSes, languages and friend's machines.
> 
> Thanks!
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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