A simple question on Cameras.
3rd August, 2006
Life,
Dear Lazyweb,
Having seen the advantages of using a digital camera for many, many years, I think it is about time I lashed out and bought one. However, I have no idea what is really a good camera for between $200 to $500. I want something with good support for linux, so i suspect this is most that use USB or firewire, however I am not really worried about what type of card slot it required (the laptop has all the common ones, if they work yet is another story :)
If you could write back with a suggestion that would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Comments
(#2) — praetorian
Matt:
Thanks. I assumed they would be mass storage devices, so that's great they are.
Will have a look at those sites as well as the Fuji camera.
Thanks again
Friday, 4 August 2006 @ 12:55 a.m.
(#1) — Matt Moor
I've read good reviews, and had pretty good (but limited) experience with the Fuji Finepix F10. My parents and I picked one up for my sister a while ago at camerahouse for $449. It takes xD cards, which is a kinda crap proprietary standard (i.e. it's not SD or CF), but does the job and doesn't cost the earth (*cough*memory stick*cough*). Camerahouse threw in a 512MB xD card for $89.95.
Otherwise, most cameras by Canon are good.
Almost all cameras in that price range use USB show up under linux as usb-storage devices (just like a usb thumb drive).
Check out dpreview.com, and dslusers.com (which other sluggers seem to be members of) for reviews and discussion.