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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 12:04 am, Adrian Midgley wrote: > Does anyone have digital cameras sorted out? I have A digital camera sorted out but that's all - my Kodak DX3600. I can use USB and gphoto2 but it just sucks all the batteries dry. It comes with a docking port which is fine for home but the port involves so many cables it becomes horrendous away from home. (Plus the rechargeable battery that came with the camera has died and ordinary rechargeables won't recharge from the docking port, only with the usual separate charger.) So USB isn't as handy as it may seem. Far more convenient for me is PCMCIA and the laptop. Mandrake 9.0 had a bad problem with DevFS but other distros can mount the flash card directly using an adapter PC card. I can preview the images on the card, use Konqueror etc. to move them around, copy other files to the flash card as temporary storage (as long as they aren't in the cameras folders) and no power consumption involved. There are PCMCIA adapters for desktops too now - take the place of a spare floppy drive blanking plate on most midi tower cases. > > I'm looking at a Sony which is new enough not to have a specific > driver. DSC-V1 very nice. > > It downloaded files yesterday, but will not do so today... > > Anyone good on this aspect? I would say it's better to ditch the drivers and access the storage medium directly - Linux is fully capable of loading the medium, it's the camera that gets in the way in-between. Cut out the middle-man. - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+8PbziAEJSii8s+MRAtiWAJ4mFi8qLAaY7pHW83V/QH6jwEkrOQCgpmqA shiQbp6o1YayT7WRlQdFRDY= =nWOR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.