Driver for Canon A1100is

[Rei Shinozuka]

much of the time, you can get by with cameras, printers, wireless 
routers, etc, never cracking open the supplied CD, and you don't miss much.

in the case of digital cameras, it's usually pretty easy.  the simplest 
way is to pop out the flash card, put it in the appropriate card reader 
(SD or MMC for your camera) which connects to USB, and the camera files 
become available via the  /media mount on your system.  i use digikam to 
import the files into its photo database.  digikam can also read raw 
formats from canon, nikon, leica (these are the ones i've personally 
used) but that's not usually a concern with most point and shoots.  
digikam can also directly transfer files off cameras, and i've done it, 
but i find the card method easier, and i don't need the camera to be 
powered on to transfer pictures.

i have a leica m8 and leica dlux4, both considered somewhat high-end 
cameras, and i've never even opened any of the packaged mac/win software 
that came with them.  digikam does it for me.  i think i should get a 
small refund for sending the mac/win software back!

-rei


Bob Hickey wrote:
> As usual, the CD furnished with this camera only works w/ windoze. 
> Anybody know how to get it on Ubuntu 9.10 ? Canon seems to show no 
> interest but they made the only camera with a viewfinder in the store. 
> Thanx, Bob H.