[Techtalk] Recommendations for digital cameras

[Claudine Chionh]

On 12/10/05, Tiera <tiera at bredband.net> wrote:
> > If you own a digital camera and you use it with Linux, I'm interested in
> > knowing what brand/model it is and how easy it is to plug into your
> > system. I'm also interested in what you think about the camera in
> > general.
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a Canon IXUS 50. I've used it with Ubuntu (Hoary) without any
> trouble. I just plugged it in and opened the camera program (can't
> remember the name...) and it detected the camera right away.
> I've been very satisfied with this camera. Good photo quality and good
> video quality for a camera (atleast compared to our old camera, which also
> was a Canon of some sort).

If you're using Ubuntu, I think the default camera program is gthumb.
gthumb is happy to import from my Canon Powershot A400 as well. I
haven't worked out how to get Ubuntu to recognise the camera as a
removable device yet.

Claudine

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