<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Sorry for the late response. I went through most of the email thread. </font></font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">you want a digital camera which was compatible with Linux? Or you wanted a digital camera to use as a webcam?</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I have Canon G7 and now Canon T2i, both or them get recognised as canon digital camera, though G7 shows up as G7.</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I use digikam and have always used digikam since 2004.</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">The version that comes with Mandriva 2010.1 is 1.3.0 and the kipi plugins are awesome.</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">From digikam, I can: export to a number of things: flash, picasa, facebook, create a gallery, ipod, flickr, etc.</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">It is a full fledged photo management system. It is not a photo Editor.</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">With G7, I cannot capture images when connected to the PC, but with Canon T2i (550d), I can. </font></font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">(digikam)Import -> Camera -> Canon digital camera -> capture -> capture.</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff" face="Verdana">If I have gone off in tangent, let me know what you were looking for. I am now in the process of choosing an image editor on Linux, of course for now, I am sticking with Picasa and Gimp. My friends are recomending Photoshop, but unfortunately the Windows PC I have is on an atom cpu and will not have the horse power to run photoshop.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff" face="Verdana">-GGR</font></div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:40, Walt Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:waltechmail@yahoo.com">waltechmail@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>Thanks for all the replies.<br>They were very helpful.<br>There were suggestions, recommendations and<br>
facts.<br><br>feedback:<br><br>I discovered there's a camera catalog that gets listed to<br>select when getting to the right menu in gthumb, but more<br>noticeable in digikam. Both have the same catalog list.<br>Never heard of digikam before post.<br>
<br>The digiKam display of camera selection came up almost top<br>to bottom of the screen area, allowing me to rediscover the<br>list. (Iteration pays off for me). This time I paid closer<br>attention to what was on the list. I tried about 30-40<br>
cameras. None of the mentioned Vivitar worked. I also<br>doscovered in the menu several very generic camera mentions.<br>I tried *all* those ( such as PTP USB Camera ).<br><br>Interestingly, Target had a few cheap "Sakar" cameras I passed up.<br>
But several of that brand were on the list.<br><br>Identification:<br>I tried a lspci and didn't get squat. Then by chance, knowing<br>the symetry of much "linux", I typed the letters "lsusb".<br>
I got a USB ID: "Jeilin". A google search showed that some work<br>for Jeilin drivers ( camera mfgrs/models unknown) in the kernel<br>driver. I didn't research more.<br><br>The digiKam install wasn't the smoothest.<br>
On Fedora-12, I used a local yum install ( rpm files on hard disk), and<br>got some checksum error on one file. I could manually install<br>"the file" using rpm -Uvh blah, and following up with another yum,<br>
got another checksum error on a different file. Eventually all 8<br>
needed files were installed using only rpm. After the install,<br>digiKam runs fine.<br><br>What I need to do now is the obvious !.. go back to... "Target"<br>or Walmatr.. and make a short list of candidates and check the<br>
linux camera list.<br><br><br>thanks !!..<br><br><br>Walt . . . . .. . ...<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CALUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CALUG@unknownlamer.org">CALUG@unknownlamer.org</a><br>
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