Recommend a digital camera

[MighMos]

I'm looking at both, and yes, I know they are different things, but I'm leaning towards the digital camera. Anyway, I've had a bad experience w/ older video peripherals with linux in the past, and wondered if anyone could recommend a digital camera that works well with linux, or caution about one that doesn't. Please post your experiences.

[Uranus]

When you use a flashcard-reader it will generally always work. I use a Canon EOS 300D, and it should be supported by gphoto, but I haven't gotten it to work yet.
Sam

[retsaw]

Any camera that uses usb mass storage (which is most of them) will work. Olympus makes good cameras, my dad bought an Olympus Camedia C50, which is nice camera to use and takes very good pictures so I would recomend getting it. It might help people advise you if you give a price range and any features you want.

[Gertrude]

I have a Olympus C-740 Ultra Zoom. I have used it on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD with no issues. All you have to do is mount it as a USB mass storage device (http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x498.html) .


here is a review...

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/olympus/c740uz-review/

[Uranus]

Hmmm... the 300D isn't a mass storage device. Gphoto can work with non-mass-storage-devices I think, though.
Sam

[bigmac99]

I have a Canon S500, it's great. Before moving up to 5 megapixel, I had the Olympus C3000-z. Another great digital camera.

Charles

[Shep]

I use a Sony Cyber shot 3.2 model DSC-P32, and it works great in linux. I don't even have to mount it as mass storage like my old one. I can use PTP, and Digikam auo recognizes it and sets it up. Couldn't be easier. You could just DL digikam and see what cameras are supported. Any listed should work fine.

[canon006]

I've got a Fuji FinePix 3800, that works great under Linux, mounts just like any other external USB mass storage device. I don't think they make the 3800 anymore though, the new version is the S3000, which also works fine. They're both 3.2 megapixels with a 6x optical zoom. I've been very happy with mine.

[acid45]

Sony has an old one that uses a floppy drive to store the images. It's really big(2X floppy wide 1.5X floppy high 2inches deep), not great resolution(like les than 1MPX), the disc has to be FAT format, and it doesn't do video. I'm prety sure you shouldn't have any problems, I got it to work with as little as:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy


thre is a USB port on it but I haven't had it long enough to test it out. I had it for a day :P

Bahahaha

[tmcG]

I use a Canon A70 (since been updated to A75) and it is a great camera for basic photography.

As others haave stated in this post, it plugs into USB and then you mount it (I mount mine as /dev/sda2)

For a great range of in-depth reviews on any digital camera (I went here and this helped me decide which camera to buy!) go to DP Review (http://www.dpreview.com)