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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P50
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3 13137 02-23-2004
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100% of reviewers $287.50 10.0



Description: 2.1 Megapixel digital camera. 3x optical/2x digital zoom. mpeg video w/o sound capability. USB interface. Comes with 4MB memory stick.
Keywords: sony dsc-p50 digital camera
Connection Type: USB


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Old 11-10-2003, 01:20 PM   #1
green_dragon37
 
Registered: Oct 2002
Distribution: Slackware, OpenBSD 3.9
Posts: 344

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.28-24
Distribution: Redhat Linux 8.0



Just plug it in, and mount it like any mass-storage device. Works excellent.
 
Old 11-10-2003, 09:12 PM   #2
mcleodnine
 
Registered: May 2001
Distribution: s l a c k w a r e
Posts: 2,731

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $325.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.19
Distribution: Slackware 8


An awesome camera that had too many features for its price range. I picked one up in the summer of 2002 and used it for work. Wound up purchasing three Memory Sticks for it and a separate reader as well.

A fast enough camera with pretty bright optics, the best feature by far was the 37mm screw-mount on the lens. This allows you to attach filters and adpters (usually made for Sony camcorders) which is a real bonus as the outdoor subjects really needed a polarized filter on sunny days, and a wide-angle lens is just too much fun.

I'd recommend that users purchase the optional InfoLithium battery and charger as I manged to chew through a lot of AA's in a hurry and the run-time for the lithium cell is considerably longer, especially when using the LCD display (a requirement when using liear polarized filters).

One other caveat is that some kernels may fuss about wrong block size when changing memory sticks. One solution I found was to unload the usb-storage module and allow it to reload itself after re-seating the USB connector.
 
Old 02-23-2004, 12:10 AM   #3
Thetargos
 
Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Fedora, Ubuntu & Mint
Posts: 1,679

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $250.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.25
Distribution: Fedora Core 1


In Fedora Core 1 with the 2.4.x kernels, this camera gets autodetected and mounted just by plugging it to the USB bus, do I need to say more?

I've tried it with 2.6.x kernels, and you've got to mount it manually (detected as a SCSI device)

Rated 10 with distro's defaults. 9 if you use a 2.6 kernel.
 




  



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