topic Re: digital camera in Operating System - Linux

digital camera

K.C. Chan — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:34:26 GMT

All,
I am thinking of getting a digital camera, I plan to go with the following vendor:

"Olympus"
"Kodak"
"Cannon"

Does any one know if the above vendor is supported under Linux. I am basing the purchase of the above on the availability of Linux driver. Thanks.

Re: digital camera

Ron Kinner — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:18:21 GMT

As long as it has a USB connection you can probably use it.

See:

http://www.gphoto.org/cameras-04.html for a list of gphoto supported cameras.

Also Paragraph 23.7 at:

http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content/Hardware-HOWTO-html/Hardware-HOWTO-23.html

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/USB-Digital-Camera-HOWTO/

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ast_digicam.html

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/usb.html#AEN2857

Canon:

http://www.jedi.com/obiwan/linux-digicam.html

Kodak:

http://www.linuxpowered.com/HOWTO/Kodak-Digitalcam-HOWTO/index.html

Olympus:

http://home.sprintmail.com/~khollenshead/linux/linux-winnt-tecra8200.html

If all else fails get a Zio card reader:

http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~hjew/zio/

This is actually not such a bad option since you don't waste your camera batteries during the download.

Ron

Re: digital camera

Frerk Friedrichsen_1 — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:51:46 GMT

Hi,

Linux support vfat filesystem on the storage medium (CompactFlash, SmartCard ...)

If the camera use vfat to store the pictures on the storage medium it is possible to access with Linux.

You need the modules usb-core and usb-storage.
Plug on your cam and look in your syslog.
Linux should detect a SCSI device (dev/sda1)
and you can mount it easy.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 "your mount point"

I have an Olympus C-3020 Z and it works perfect.

bye

Re: digital camera

Che Cordes — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:35:04 GMT

I have an Olympus 4040Z and would recommend it for the picture quality and it's ease in connecting with a PC. Win2K recognizes it as a removable harddrive (older versions of Win may need USB drivers).

Here is a link to some info about getting this to work from the command line in linux:

http://www.schubart.net/c3040zoom/linux-usb.html

Che'

Re: digital camera

Vincent Fleming — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 16:50:44 GMT

Hey - what about an HP camera?

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