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This is a 10X optical and 3X digital zoom camera for a total of 30X zoom. 4.0 Megapixels, which is stated as excellent for 11X14. I have already had 3 8X10's developed at Walmart, and the photo quality is absolutely superb.
The controls are so easy to use, and the little jog/joystick is really well thought out. I like that no matter what you are doing, review, whatever, it is always ready to take a picture, just push the button. The settings icons and menu, well, you are using Linux, if you can't follow the menus, there is a serious disconnect here. :-)
Anyway, the useful information. Big bright LCD. After you take a photo, you can zoom in 4X and use the joystick to check the picture out. Very handy to verify that the person is in perfect focus, which wouldn't be possible without the review zoom. Have used it in full sun, looking in the general direction of the sun, and can still make it out. You can switch between the LCD or the Electronic viewfinder.
Flawless operation with both GTKam and Digikam. The version I purchased came without the camera dock and has an external charger. This took $100 off the price, and since you can find the doc, if you want for $70, buy it this way (Best Buy is selling without the dock, Circuit city includes the dock). Simply plugged in the USB cable, and accessed it directly, no problems at all.
Check your version of gphoto (ghpoto --list-cameras |grep 6490), you should see "Kodak DX6490" (TESTING). I can attest that it works. You can delete from the camera while using both gtkam and digikam. If you don't see it, then upgrade gphoto2, or simply buy a card reader.
The USB cable. The cover for the usb port is behind a ubber cover, and it looks to be that it won't stand the test of time if you open it often. You have to lift it almost to 90 degrees to get to the USB slot, so, $14 to buy an SD card reader. I highly recommend the reader, however, decide for yourself.
I added the card reader manually, the system told me the location once I plugged it in with the hardware browser, however, next reboot, Suse added it's own entry in fstab, that you can create a 'Link to Hard Drive', and select it. I suspect most distro's would do the same. I am going to boot into Mandrake 10.0 official, I will post if it adds the desktop icon automatically, which I suspect it will.
On the external battery charger. The camera was always means to come with the dock, which charges it. The only drawback to the external charger, the date/time is cleared each time you charge the battery, and you have to reset it. If you always want the date/time on your photos (I don't, so getting a dock is not something I will), then find the dock instead of the card reader, or continually setting it will be a pain.
I have researched and from everything I read, the dock is fully supported. I went the card reader route because, being a 'min hard drive', I can upload, edit in Gimp, then download and take the card to get it developed.
Notes:
1) Think of the internal 16 Mbytes as 'emergency' pictures when your SD card runs out of room. Go ahead and by an SD. 64 Mbytes will still give a MINIMUM of 48 pictures, so if you rarely think you will need more than 2 rolls of film before you upload, don't let the salesperson tell you what you don't need.
2) 10X zoom, amazing. I haven't even tried the digital zoom. You would be amazed at how much 10X is.
3) I got a 128 or larger SD card. 128 will give 90 highest resolution photos, Not everything you shoot will be 8X10, so if 'excellent' 4X6 is what you want, 172 at the 'better' setting. At the good setting qich provides 'good' 4X6, 280 pictures. Kinda crazy, but it was only $10 more than the 64Mbyte card.
reference http://www.ltlimagery.com/resolution...esolutionchart
4) Get either a dock (buy seperatley, cheaper) or an SD card reader.
Final note: Make sure that if you edit it, with Gimp or anything else, select 100% quality or else each time you open and save, you lose quality.
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Easyshare 10X Zoom 4.0 Megapixels
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05-14-2004, 09:02 PM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Suse 9.0 Professional
Posts: 843
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $400.00 | Rating: 10
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Either I forgot to enter the price, or there wasn't an entry for it.
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06-25-2005, 01:50 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: SuSE 10.0
Posts: 13
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $300.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.11.4-21.7-default
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SuSE Professional 9.3
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This camera works flawlessly with Linux, at least on SuSE 9.3. It is automatically mounted as camera:/Kodak EasyShare DX6490 (or something very close to that) and drag 'n drop functionality is there perfectly. It is a little slower using the camera:/ protocol rather than being mounted as a block device as some older cameras are, but it works flawlessly.
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