digital camera (100 - 200 USD price range)

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> My sister is looking to get a digital camera, and I'm trying to find one that is
> compatible with ubuntu or another easy to use debian derivative (or debian
> itself if sarge/etch is user friendly enough).
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.


I think pretty much any camera nowadays are "compatible" with Linux.
Since they are seen by the system as USB mass storage device, you can
just hot-plug it and Gnome will open a Nautilus window showing the
content (pics) of the camera's memory card. Then you can just drag and
drop them where ever you like, and also free space on the memory card by
deleting the files/pics directly from Nautilus.
It's really very sweet and effortless. Well it was with Mandrake 9.2
anyway, but I have not had yet the opportunity to plug the camera under
Ubuntu.

So just make sure the camera is identified as using "USB mass storage
class" or something like that, and it should be perfect.
I think even cheap camera's use this system now. last summer I got a
dirty cheap (150 USD/Euros) Olympus camera, and it worked fine.
Picture quality was disgusting though, so I returned it, hence why I
can't try it under Ubuntu. But I can't see why it would not work, it's
just USB.

HTH

Vince