[Gllug] OT: Digital camera recommendations

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Tue Jun 13 21:58:44 UTC 2006


Peter Adamson wrote:

> There is one catch to all this.
> You need to get the images off the camera in the first place.
> gphoto2 claims to be able to do that,

It can.

> but I've never got it to work.

I have.

> So you may need to invest in a memory card reader.

You should anyway. USB download speed from Canon DSLR's sucks in a big
way. Buy a USB2 or firewire card reader, and forget gphoto2 for DSLR's
unless you only shoot JPEG. The image files are too large, and the
download speed is utter crap.

Mike
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