On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:47:56PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > High, > > > > > I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital > > > camera to use with it and the Gimp. > > > > > > Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? > > > > > I have heard that the Logitech (USB's?) are a bad choice for Linux because > > they do not release any Linux drivers for it. If you buy one, be sure you > > can return it and get another one in case it does not work. > > I bought a sony mavica and it works great! Images are on a floppy disk > and there's no headache whatsoever. Sony Mavica's can be had for about > $300..
I have one Olympus D400 Zoom and it works very well with gPhoto. It`s pretty old now, I`ve bought it two years ago. There are drivers to models until D450, but I guess newer ones can work with it. In addition to that there are drivers to many kinds of digital cameras, it`s worth looking there the site is www.gphoto.org HTH, Rafael Sasaki