Which digital camera works best with Ubuntu

[Mark]

HI Owen:

Thank you!


On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 14:32 +1100, Owen Townend wrote:

> 2008/12/3 Sambit Bikas Pal <sambitbikaspal at gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 07:06, Mark <markfpyles at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi everyone:
> >>
> >> I have a question. I am running Ubuntu  8.04 and am looking to purchase a
> >> new inexpensive point and shoot camera and wanted to know which digital
> >> camera works best with Ubuntu? Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> > I recently bought a Sony DSC W130. Works flawlessly with ubuntu, out
> > of the box. Gets detected as a USB mass storage device, F-spot photo
> > manager is launched automatically when connected.  8.1MPixels, 4x
> > Optical Zoom, Face Detection, Smile shutter(can click automatically if
> > subject is smiling)  Carl Zeiss lens. Very easy to use in auto mode -
> > of the point and shoot type. Quite cheap, costs around 13,000 INR,
> > i.e. around 270 USD.
> >
> 
> Hey,
>  This has been my experience with almost all digital cameras.  They
> detect as mass storage devices (the same as a USB flash drive) and the
> photos and movies can be simply dragged and dropped or taken using a
> program such as F-Spot.  From my experience a better approach would be
> to check if a specific camera has issues as the majority seem to work
> in the above fashion.
> 
> cheers,
> Owen.
> 
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