Digital Camera

[Mario Vukelic]

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Thank you.

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:54 -0400, Patrick Newberry wrote:
> I know very little about digital cameras and will be looking between now and christmas for one.
> Since I'll be using my Ubuntu box to pull in the photos, is there anything I should look for in my shopping.

The easiest way to be sure that it works is to buy a camera that
identifies as a USB Mass Storage device. Most cameras do this, and all
of them work. This property is always listed in the camera
specifications.

Otherwise, you need to check with the compatibility list for libgphoto2:
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
Make sure that you look in the section with the correct version number
of libgphoto2 in your Ubuntu version. (You can find this in the Synaptic
Package Manager)

> I'm guessing that the software that comes with the cameras are going to be for windoz rather than linux.

Yes, and there's nothing on these disks that you would need with Ubuntu.