On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: > >> I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned >> about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the >> cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the >> images to Windows.
It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you buy separately (an increasing number of makes offer this option). Then you don't have to worry about using software, cables or any other nonsense: you just put the floppy into the computer (anybody's computer ... ) and copy the files. Also, provided you have enough battery resources, you can go out for a long day with a pocket-full of floppies and come home with hundreds of photos: you don't have to buy several expensive memory modules to achieve the same effect. (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know -- standard DOS-formatted floppies straight out of the box). Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Dec-99 Time: 15:13:37 1673182 seconds left ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------