Peter Alefounder wrote: > Does anyone have any advice to offer on digital cameras? There are > a lot of web sites about this, but many appear to be out of date.
We have an old canon powershot A200, a newer canon powershot A540 and a more new canon powershot A720 IS all work in (PTP mode) in basic transfer mode with digikam, in fact with the last two purchases I was careful to take a laptop and live cd in to the shop (Jessops as it happens) and tested them before purchase. This was useful to me and also meant that the assistant was appraised that money was associated with functionality...... Interestingly the A540 was not at the time the most recent model when purchased, but the later model could not be made to transfer while we were asking. Probably finger trouble but we refused to buy something which was apparently incompatible. :-) The A540 is still doing well. In practice we find that the memory cards are used in external card readers to copy stuff off, and the ptp transfer from the camera proper is rarely used. I also donated the live cd each time to the assistant before leaving the shop, since it had been used to help make a sale, and hopefully had left an impression. Our choice of canon was after being told their lenses are thought to be good (?) and the powershot series because they all are able to use standard rechargeable AA size batteries which we can use cheaply and carry spares etc when in our motorhome journeys, avoiding a mains charger which some cameras need.. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
