Messages in this thread | | | From | James Willard <> | Subject | Re: Digital Cameras... | Date | Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:04:08 -0400 (EDT) |
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Buy one of the cameras that stores the images on 3.5" floppies as JPEGs. They can be a bit more pricey, but it's nice not having to worry about running out of flash ram before you can offload the images.
James Willard, CCNA james@whispering.org
> > > I'd like to get a digital camera, primarily for doing stuff on the web > to save from having to develop film, scan, etc. > > I don't want to have to go buy a computer and put Whendoze on it. I > don't even really want to have to buy a PC. > > I've only looked at one camera so far (Nikon Coolpix 950), and it would > seem to have a serial interface but it has proprietary drivers for getting the > pictures from the camera to a PC, unless you get a memory card reader, which > connects to a PC parallel port and also uses proprietary software, for > Whendoze. > > Here, I run mostly Sparc systems, only one PC, most of the machines run > Linux (a few still run SunOS 4.1.4 owing to the lack of FDDI support for Sparc > machines running Linux)... > > Can anybody tell me if there are any digital cameras that work under > Linux, preferably that aren't tied to the PC hardware architecture, preferably > in the megapixel range? > > If that's not the case, are there any emulators that work under Linux that > emulate Whenbloze sufficiently well to allow software like that for the Coolpix > to work under Linux without having to boot up Whenblows? > > I'd really like something that I can bring pictures into my workstation > without the need to switch hardware or boot a different OS. Thanks for any > advice you can offer. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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