On 16/06/13 10:58, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
I'm not sure if I understand 'Linux compatible' in this context. Surely the compatibility is not a function of the camera?
Agreed, but I think I know what Keith is driving at; I suspect that he wants his mum to plug in the camera and for an application like Shotwell to pop up and more or less take care of copying the pictures to the hard drive and clearing down the memory card on the camera, with as little interaction as possible on his mum's part.
I've used any number of different cameras with Linux machines and I've never had a problem.
We use Canons (I have a G12 and my wife has a smaller less complex model) because they pretty much dominate the quality digital compact market having got in early and done a lot of the hard work pioneering the format.
As alluded to above, Shotwell does all of the archiving for us, pulling the pictures off and storing them in a YYYY MM DD archive, with an option to clear down the camera's memory when it is complete.
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