My wife and I would like to purchase a digital camera for Christmas.> . . .
Linux support as a camera and as a webcam
Luckily almost all modern cameras present themselves as usb-mass-storage so offloading photos is a snap (pun intended).
I've had trouble finding /any/ webcam of any kind that actually really works with Linux. If anyone has one working (working well) I'd really like to hear about it.
It seems like the only thing you can really do for a webcam in linux is have a brooktree capture card (almost all capture cards are brooktree be they named what they may) and hook it up with svideo or rca to a real camera.
I prefer a camera with a real CCD circuit as opposed to the less expensive (lower quality) CMOS circuits many have now. Mine is an Olympus and I'm satisfied with it, but it's old. I use a usb card reader to get my photos off. The serial thing is unbelievably slow.
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