begin nate quotation: > after my recent bout with printers...i feel the need > to ask the list what is a good COMPADIBLE digital > camera for debian(potato or testing, but not unstable). > > from the looks of it, gphoto is a popular program, > and supports a bunch of cameras,im lookin for something > under $500.. Gphoto2 allegedly supports my Canon PowerShot G2, but I never got it to work; gphoto2 just insisted the camera wasn't there. Fortunately, I found a better solution anyway. The G2 uses compact flash (CF) cards for storage, and for $20 or so you can buy a USB reader for these CF cards. The CF reader looks to Linux like a removable SCSI drive, so you just put the card in it, mount the card as a VFAT filesystem, and copy the files off of it. No gphoto required. Though of course your kernel has to have decent USB support, so I don't know if a 2.2 kernel would do. > something that looks interesting is the > Canon PowerShot S300 mentioned on gphoto's page > as being compadible, i see it listed on one place i > buy from for $468. I don't know anything about > digital cameras, as far as what is considered good > or not, haven't used one before and haven't had a camera > period since 1993. Consult Digital Photography Review at http://www.dpreview.com for expert reviews and user opinions of a wide variety of digital cameras. The PowerShot S300, according to DP Review, uses CF card storage, so the card reader trick I mentioned above should work if your system has good USB support. > i'd like something that has a decent flash, and > decent quality. That depends what you mean by "decent". You'll have to judge for yourself; DP Review should have more than enough information, including sample pictures for many cameras. Craig
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