Friday, May 28, 2004

Digital Camera and Linux -- 7:15 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

My wife and I took the plunge into digital photography today and bought a Canon PowerShot A80. It's a pretty nice little four-megapixel camera that will do everything automagically if you want, but it also allows a lot of manual control for the shutterbug set. Thankfully, I got it working pretty easily in Linux with the help of gPhoto. The big thing was just showing hotplug what to do with it (which would have been easy, if I had just read the FAQ first). I want to get a relatively big (~256M) and fast Compact Flash card and reader so I don't have to use gPhoto. It's not that gPhoto or any of the front ends are bad, it's just that the camera transfer speed is kind of slow and it eats up the batteries. Nice to know it works in a pinch though. In case you wonder why I chose the A80, this review should explain it.

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