Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.22.5newbd-006-2622.5
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Distribution:
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Slackware 11.0
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I'm no 'photographer' and probably only snap a half dozen photos a year, so if you're like me in that regard, this camera will do just fine. It's likely several years old as of this writing, but works very well.
Before connecting it to the computer, I installed libgphoto2 (supports 900+ camera models), libexif-gtk (communicates via camera-speak with your device), and gtkam (a very basic digital camera dumping application with a GTK GUI front-end), all downloaded from Sourceforge.net.
The camera was automatically detected when connected to a USB port and turned on, and when I ran gtkam, the camera was detected, initialized and all the pictures (resizable thumbnails) onscreen with about 2 mouse clicks and a matter of 10-15 seconds. Couldn't be easier -- well, maybe you *could* make udev auto-start your camera program when plugged in, but really...
So, for simplicity of installation, ease of use, and compatibility with (my) Linux OS, I see no reason not to give it a 10/10. I can take photos and dump them into the computer in a few clicks, and that's the whole idea, right?!
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