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Re: Digital camera how-to



begin  Alan Shutko  quotation:

> Darryl Caldwell <darrylc@landscouncil.org> writes:
> 
> > Go to www.gphoto.org and take a look. I have a Powershot G1 and it's
> > supported.
> 
> Also, the original poster should note that any camera with removable
> media will work with Linux, since nearly all card readers work under
> Linux, and card readers are often more convenient anyway.

A card reader can definitely be more convenient, and they also allow you
to access your images without running down the camera battery. I started
using a card reader (San Disk SDDR-31 Compact Flash reader) after
finding gphoto2 quite useless with my Canon Powershot G2 (which insisted
the camera wasn't there even though generic USB tools said it was).

I'm not sure that "nearly all" card readers work under Linux -- I would
assume that all USB Mass Storage-compatible readers work, but some
others are known NOT to work, including at least one San Disk model (so
look specifically for the SDDR-31 if you want one). Whether "nearly all"
card readers are Mass Storage-compatible or otherwise supported under
Linux, I do not know.

Craig

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