On hindsight it could be both...I will just shut-up in future....sorry
OH...don't buy a Polaroid Digital 320, cheap and nasty.
If you do buy a digital camera try to get one with a flash..makes a big
difference.
alister
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Alister Waller
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 March 2001 12:47 PM
> To: Slug
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] Digital camera's for linux
>
>
> 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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