> Just out of curiosity, what does that SW offer? Well, there are several packages, one of which is always bundled with the camera and the others for sale separately. The Nikon website is a better source of info than I am, actually. But the direct camera support package provides USB detection, automatic downloading, a bunch of cosmetic viewer features... The buy-up packages provide image correction and editing, I think. (I haven't loaded it yet...). Some of those things are built into Windoze XP, I think (I'm not, and never will be, upgraded beyond Win 98), so the Nikon software for older versions of Windoze provides whatever the older versions don't have...
The real benefit to having the Windoze apps (Nikon or not) to support the camera is in being able to load camera (or film scanner) images directly into something like Photoshop without having to go through any JPEG or other compression, so that you can manipulate raw images. (Again, I'm picking nits because I usually don't *do* this - but that's where hooking the camera up to Linux might start producing limitations if you don't have whatever Nikon or other software provides the capability...) I think the Nikon load you get with the camera (or scanner) provides the "hooks" (drivers or driver linkage?) for some of the other commercial apps like Photoshop to get at the camera or scanner directly... not sure though. > I added the following two lines to /etc/modules: >. >. >. Thanks!!!! You probably just saved me an eventual two or three evenings of website/document/list trolling... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]