[Gllug] Digital Cameras

[Richard Cohen]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 tet at accucard.com wrote:

>
> >I'm already pretty leery about Sony and Memory Sticks; is this rational? I'm
> >tending towards a Canon or Olympus compact - any recommendations?
>
> Very happy with my Olympus C2020Z. It's obsolete now, but I think the
> replacement is a C3000 or something similar. The only downside is that
> it stores movies as Quicktime, rather than a more Unix friendly format.

I've got a C960Z - I've got no idea what the logic of the model numbers is,
if any.  This is a relatively old, relatively large camera, but does me
fine.  Mine doesn't do movies... :-)

Tigran recommended it to me a couple of years ago.

> >A whole bunch of questions - any and all answers/comments are welcome.
>
> Can't comment on the USB stuff, but uploading via serial cable works
> fine with gphoto with one caveat -- it's *painfully* slow. As a result,
> I got a SmartMedia PCMCIA card reader. Just plug it in, and it appears
> as a hard drive, which you can mount and copy/delete files from as
> normal, which is a major win.

I just use serial.  Since I tend to take photos when I travel, or go to an
event or something, I just batch-transfer them over the serial line when I
get back.  Takes a while, but I just leave it running...

I tried a SmartMedia->PCMCIA adapter in the back of my iPAQ once - I was
quite impressed that I could just mount it and go (take two handheld devices
into the shower?  No, I just mount and go!).  I've also got gphoto2 running
on the iPAQ, so I can pull the photos over the serial line to that, on the
road if need be.

> Tet

Cheers
Richard



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