[linux-help] Re: Linux-friendly digital camera?

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

I stand corrected.  Guess I am about two years behind the 
progress Sony has made with the Mavica.
bruce


On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:56 pm, you wrote:
> The mavica takes a much better picture.   My roonmate has a
> mavica that takes pictures at much more than 640 X 480. He
> thinks it is abt 1024 X 768 but does not have the manual
> handy.
>
> It puts the image on a mini-CD so it can put  720 images  at
> high resolution or abt 1400 imagtes at low resolution on one
> mini cd. It also can take short video mpgs.
>
> I don't think any of the newer mavicas use floppy.
>
> Jeff
>
> bruce wrote:
> >>    The Sony Mavicas are nice for LINUX.  They take their
> >>pictures onto a floppy disk or CDRW.  Not a cheap camera,
> >>however.  One camera shop guy I talked with doesn't like
> >> the Sonys. The Sony file format is a standard format
> >> (jpeg, if I remember right).  The floppy-based cameras use
> >> an MS-DOS formatted floppy.  I think the CDRW uses
> >> ISO9660, but I don't know for sure.  I have heard of
> >> USB-attached digital cameras that LINUX likes, but I don't
> >> have any firsthand knowledge about these.
> >
> >Doesn't the Mavica only take 640x480 pictures?  If so that's
> >not a great picture.
> >
> >If it takes bigger (like 'megapixel') pictures, it could
> > only store five to eight on a floppy, which could require
> > carrying a bunch of floppies.
> >bruce
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