Feisty and Digital Camera

[linux.convert]

I am interested in aquiring a digital camera. I was wondering, is there a particular brand that has better/best compatability with Feisty. or least compatability issues, either way.

[Izek]

Look for one that can change itself to appear as a harddisk when plugged in.

[Bartender]

I've run across a Canon or two that didn't work very well.
Our Olympus SP-500UZ (a coupla years old now) is very simple. You set up the camera just like you would on a Windows PC - twist the knob on the top of the camera to the green arrow, plug the camera into a USB port, wait for the menu to pop up on the LCD on back of camera, click "OK" for PC, and Ubuntu recognizes it as a USB storage device.
Picasa for Linux picks it up effortlessly.
With F-Spot you had to be a little bit careful - FSpot showed an Olympus camera, but not the SP500UZ, and if I clicked on that the camera wouldn't connect. But F-Spot also showed a generic USB device, and that does work.
In Kubuntu's Digicam, it did not work so well. Digikam insisted that the SP-500UZ was some other Olympus camera,and when I picked that device it didn't work. Digikam gave me no other options.

Have you considered moving on to 8.04, or even 8.10? A lot of little things worked better for us when we moved from 7.10 to 8.04.

[linux.convert]

what are the min. requirements for 8.04? And can you get it on a CD?

I'd need to download it and then burn it to a CD to use it. No DVD-R.

[kellemes]

I am interested in aquiring a digital camera. I was wondering, is there a particular brand that has better/best compatability with Feisty. or least compatability issues, either way.

Can only report my Sony handycam dcr-hc37 is working fine from Linux, this includes several distributions.. Ubuntu (including Feisty), Debian, Arch and Slackware-based distro's.
The only thing I want is to be able to capture the video, works fine.
Still, sometimes firewire may not work out of the box (depending on distro), in this case you need a search in these forums or Google to get things going.

[matt-lisa]

We had a Samsung L730 that was basically a plug'n'play deal. We would just connect it through a USB cable, turn the camera on, and the camera would ask if you wanted to connect to a computer or printer. F-spot downloaded all images every time (including video). No need to install the software from the camera either (not that it would)

The only thing is that I have heard problems (which is why we are now looking for a new camera) with the lenses on a number of the samsung cameras having a tendency to fail, and/or, jam up, after about a year or so. And trying to get samsung to come to the party on warranty is a nightmare.

This lens failure has happened to our camera and a friends almost within a month of each other.

Will keep an eye on this thread as we are looking for a compatible brand other than samsung.

I have also used a Fuji digital camera on Ubuntu. But to get the files off the camera, or view them, you need to manually copy the files from the camera folder to your picture/photos folder as F-Spot/GIMP/Totem etc dont see the camera or cant connect.

Hope this helps

[kayosiii]

Anything that acts as a USB mass storage device should work fine... All of the Fuji's I have used are in that boat. If you happen to get one that doesn't work well you can pick up a cheap card reader (around here supermarkets sell them even)