Re: Digital camera and Linux
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:27:33AM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote:
> I stayed away from usb at the time I bought my camera because I did not
> consider usb support in Linux to be stable/mature enough. If I were
> buying a camera today, however, I would look seriously at trying to put
> together a gphoto + usb solution under kernel 2.4.x. Firewire, if it
> could be made to work for this, would be even cooler.
Compiling USB support was straightforward for both my desktop and laptop
(an old Toshiba Tecra 550CDT -- I was worried that its USB would be too
old). I used the Debian 2.4.5 package and kernel-package, of course.
My Canon with gphoto2 transfers 1600x1200 fine (less jpeg compression)
pictures at about 3 seconds per picture in a single operation. I cannot
imagine using floppy disks or a serial port. USB seems fast enough.
The extra expense of firewire doesn't seem justified for still pictures.
And, by the way, while Windows ME has built-in automatic support for my
camera, gqview is a far superior way to sort through pictures quickly
than anything I have in Windows (although I admit to not doing an
exhaustive search, since I don't really care).
The bad news is that I have an Epson Photo Stylus 870 that prints on 4
inch roll paper but is not yet supported in Linux. The good news is
that I mixed some digital camera/Epson 870 prints in with some 45 millimeter
prints from Kodak and none of my friends could figure out which were
which.
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Michael Epting (epting@ix.netcom.com)
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