USB, digital camera and Linux

[John van der Ploeg]

All,

I'm thinking of buying one of those nice digital camara's with an USB interface.
Of course such a camera will come with a nice windoz software tool...
But

How good is the support of USB for digital cameras in linux these days?
I saw that in 2.4.x there is USB support.
What else is needed to make this work?

Any other advice, do's and dont's  before buying?

    - John

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[Chris Ahlstrom]

While stuck in the full lotus position, John van der Ploeg chanted this mantra:

> I'm thinking of buying one of those nice digital camara's with an USB
> interface.
> Of course such a camera will come with a nice windoz software tool...
> But
>
> How good is the support of USB for digital cameras in linux these days?
> I saw that in 2.4.x there is USB support.
> What else is needed to make this work?
>
> Any other advice, do's and dont's before buying?

I bought an HP Photosmart 315. No optical zoom, but it is really
good for portraits and other relatively close pix.

I got it running on a RedHat 7 setup with a 2.4 kernel.
You have to modprobe for sd_mod and usb_storage.

Then mount the camera as a VFAT file system on /dev/sdb0 or /dev/sdb1.

No special software necessary, treat it just like a removable disk
drive. Unmount it before you unplug it from the computer.

Chris

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