Re: Digital camera and Linux

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

John S. J. Anderson wrote:

> >>>>> On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com> said:
> 
> Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital
> Ilya> camera which can be used with Linux?
> 
> Have you considered the Sony Mavica series? They write picture files
> to standard VFAT filesystem floppy disks

I have wondered about this.  I fill up a 32MB memory card pretty
quickly when taking pictures at 3.1Mpixels.  A single picture is
usually around 1.1 to 1.3 MB, so that would be one floopy per
picture.  I wouldn't want to (1) carry that many floppies, (2) to
forced to change the floppy after every picture and (3) feed-in
all these (slow reading) floppies to my PC later.

This made me think the floppy thing was not viable.  How does it
work out for you?

Peter