On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 16:55 +0100, samwise wrote:
Interesting. I have no real desire to use it as a webcam (though that might be an added bonus). General consensus from here and another forum I posted on, is that USB storage is all that's required and RAW support may be out of my price range.
I did have someone suggesting that support by gPhoto (altho I do mainly use KDE) might be worth looking for:
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
Is this app any good? Does it do anything other than facilitate copying files from the camera (in which case USB storage should be good enough)?
For the record I have a card reader which should cope with most formats (when I get it working with Linux). I also have a video camera which takes MemorySticks and my phone takes RS/DV-MMC cards (soon to change but I have one of the cards).
Peter.
I cant advise on the Camera, as I have an Eos 400D :-)
However, gphoto works quite well for getting pictures off the camera, and for reading and editing the EXIF data. This is a little slower than putting my Compact Flash card straight into my card reader.
It seems the newer Canon digital cameras speak PTP protocol (as do a lot of other brands), which may be useful if you want to remote control your camera from your PC.
Check if the camera supports PictBridge printing, as you may be able to plug it straight into your printer, and select what you want to print that way.
Picasa is available for Linux, which is quite good for basic touch ups. http://picasa.google.com/linux/
The Gimp and cinepaint are also good.
HTH
Chris