Looking for digital camera recommendation

iainr · 08-07-2004, 03:00 PM

I'm looking to buy a cheap digital camera (I'll mainly use it for eBay pictures and that sort of thing, so I really don't need anything flash or huge numbers of Megapixels).

The main requirement is that I can easily upload pictures to my PC running Mandrake 10.

Does anyone have recommendations for cheap cameras that definitely work with Mandrake 10?

win32sux · 08-07-2004, 03:04 PM

i have a fuji finepix 1300... works fine with any distro... just connect to the usb port and mount it...

mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/camera

maroonbaboon · 08-08-2004, 09:58 AM

The digital camera connection isn't really a problem any more. Just get a linux-compatible USB flash card reader (useful things anyway).

RHELL · 08-08-2004, 01:33 PM

Find the cam you want and see if it's on the gphoto2/gtkam compatibility list.
http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php

Install hotplug and it will automount.

win32sux · 08-08-2004, 02:03 PM

my camera (fuji finepix 1300) isn't on the list and it works perfectly with linux... i'd assume it would hence also work with those camera programs, but i don't know...

iainr · 08-21-2004, 03:13 PM

Thanks for the advice. I went for hardware that supported the USB Mass Storage standard (including a card reader - very handy) and everything works perfectly.