I think the original poster meant Webcam not digital camera.
I may be wrong
Alister
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Dave Fitch
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 March 2001 12:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Digital camera's for linux
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:23:52PM +1100, Michael Covi wrote:
> > Looks like a wonderfull camera. A bit out of my price range. I
> should have
> > said i was after one of the ones that you just plug straight into the pc
> > for only a $100-$300
>
> I bought an Afga CL20 for $305 ($335 from Harris Tech plus a $30
> cashback from Agfa), it's pretty good for the price, does
> 1200x900 (or something like that), no little screen on the
> back to preview the pics though is the only drawback.
>
> The software it comes with is only M$, and I haven't tried
> gphoto yet, but it takes normal compactflash cards (and I've
> got a 40Mb flash card lying around) so I bought a flash->pcmcia
> adaptor ($30 from HT). So cos the camera just writes to the
> flash as an IDE disk using the FAT filesystem I can just mount
> it in linux and copy the pics off the flash.
>
> The camera has a USB connector and I've tried that in lose98
> but it's fairly slow (compared to the accessing the flash
> method) and causes lose98 to hang half the time
> so I just use my pcmcia converter now.
>
> Dave.
>
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Ron Skeoch wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:23:50 +1100
> > > From: Ron Skeoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Digital camera's for linux
> > >
> > > Michael Covi wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Sluggers,
> > > >
> > > > I wanted to get a digital camera for linux. I know nothing
> about this.
> > > > Anyone got any recomendations? My friend bought a logitech
> and it only
> > > > works on windows so for sure that brand is out.
> > >
> > > I have a OLYMPUS C2000Zoom
> > > Initially no linux conection
> > > now Gphoto (0.4.3) works to take photo and single downloads
> > > unable to download all photo (30HD)as a single process
> > > so still using M$ with Olympus S/w for reliabity
> > > awaiting next upgrade of Gphoto
> > > regards
> > >
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