Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

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> Just out of curiosity, what does that SW offer?

Well, there are several packages, one of which is always bundled
with the camera and the others for sale separately.  The Nikon website
is a
better source of info than I am, actually.  But the direct camera
support package provides USB detection, automatic downloading, a bunch
of cosmetic viewer features...  The buy-up packages provide image
correction and editing, I think.  (I haven't loaded it yet...).  Some of
those things are built into Windoze XP, I think (I'm not, and never
will be, upgraded beyond Win 98), so the Nikon software for older
versions of Windoze provides whatever the older versions don't have...

The real benefit to having the Windoze apps (Nikon or not) to support
the camera is in being able to load camera (or film scanner) images
directly into something like Photoshop without having to go through
any JPEG or other compression, so that you can manipulate raw
images.  (Again, I'm picking nits because I usually don't *do* this
- but that's where hooking the camera up to Linux might start producing
limitations if you don't have whatever Nikon or other software provides
the capability...)  I think the Nikon load you get with the camera
(or scanner) provides the "hooks" (drivers or driver linkage?)
for some of the other commercial apps like Photoshop to get at the
camera or scanner directly...  not sure though.


> I added the following two lines to /etc/modules:
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Thanks!!!!  You probably just saved me an eventual two or three
evenings of website/document/list trolling...