Re: [tlug] Digital Camera Choices: Canon IXY 320 ?

[//mauro// <mauro@example.com>]

Tim,

the  IXY 320 works  perfectly ok with Linux, uhci, usb-storage and sdmod will bring it as an SCSI device then mount it as vfat and your pictures will be beautifully there :)

good luck !!

//mauro//

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:05:53AM +0000, Tim wrote:
> Hello TLUG,
> 
> 
> Hoping to get some info here.
> I am about to buy a Digital camera as a Birthday present.
> 
> Her set up:
>    Japanese Windows2000 notebook
> My set-up:
>    Dual boot: SuSE 8.0 Pro / Win98 English
> 
> Can someone confirm / correct:
>   I have found the Canon IXY 320 in Japan which seems to stick to most
> standards and store pictures on CF cards which I should be able to
> access as JPG files on my Linux system, right?
> 
>   For the USB downloading, she will need Windows software.  I think
> that on my Linux system, I can use the gphoto2 package found through a
> google search on the issue.
> 
> I will be going to San Fransisco for work soon, and was thinking of
> getting the USA version of the same camera.  Does anyone know if
> buying the Japanese Canon IXY 320 or the USA Canon Powershot S230
> makes any difference depending on the language of the operating
> system?
> 
> Any other linux compatible cameras to be recomended instead?  I do not
> like the idea of requiring software to retrive the pictures, so native
> storage as JPG or PNG is a bonus as it is more likely to work across
> OSes, languages and friend's machines.
> 
> Thanks!
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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