[CALUG] modest linux camera: feedback

[Rajiv Gunja]

Sorry for the late response. I went through most of the email thread.
you want a digital camera which was compatible with Linux? Or you wanted a
digital camera to use as a webcam?

I have Canon G7 and now Canon T2i, both or them get recognised as canon
digital camera, though G7 shows up as G7.
I use digikam and have always used digikam since 2004.

The version that comes with Mandriva 2010.1 is 1.3.0 and the kipi plugins
are awesome.

>From digikam, I can: export to a number of things: flash, picasa, facebook,
create a gallery, ipod, flickr, etc.
It is a full fledged photo management system. It is not a photo Editor.

With G7, I cannot capture images when connected to the PC, but with Canon
T2i (550d), I can.
(digikam)Import -> Camera -> Canon digital camera -> capture -> capture.

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.

-GGR


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Rajiv G Gunja
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:40, Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for all the replies.
> They were very helpful.
> There were suggestions, recommendations and
> facts.
>
> feedback:
>
> I discovered there's a camera catalog that gets listed to
> select when getting to the right menu in gthumb, but more
> noticeable in digikam.  Both have the same catalog list.
> Never heard of digikam before post.
>
> The digiKam display of camera selection came up almost top
> to bottom of the screen area, allowing me to rediscover the
> list.  (Iteration pays off for me).  This time I paid closer
> attention to what was on the list.  I tried about 30-40
> cameras.  None of the mentioned Vivitar worked.  I also
> doscovered in the menu several very generic camera mentions.
> I tried *all* those ( such as PTP USB Camera ).
>
> Interestingly, Target had a few cheap "Sakar" cameras I passed up.
> But several of that brand were on the list.
>
> Identification:
> I tried a lspci and didn't get squat.  Then by chance, knowing
> the symetry of much "linux", I typed the letters "lsusb".
> I got a USB ID: "Jeilin".  A google search showed that some work
> for Jeilin drivers ( camera mfgrs/models unknown) in the kernel
> driver.  I didn't research more.
>
> The digiKam install wasn't the smoothest.
> On Fedora-12, I used a local yum install ( rpm files on hard disk), and
> got some checksum error on one file. I could manually install
> "the file" using rpm -Uvh blah, and following up with another yum,
> got another checksum error on a different file.  Eventually all  8
> needed files were installed using only rpm.  After the install,
> digiKam runs fine.
>
> What I need to do now is the obvious !.. go back to... "Target"
> or Walmatr.. and make a short list of candidates and check the
> linux camera list.
>
>
> thanks !!..
>
>
> Walt . . . . .. . ...
>
>
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