On Sunday 16 Jun 2013, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple-to-use camera that is Linux compatible. It's for
> my mum, who is in her 70s, so point, click is about as complex as it needs
> to be. Her PC runs Linux, supported by yours truly from 165 miles away, so
> ideally she would connect the camera to the PC with a USB cable and it
> would Just Work.
There are several ways you can use a camera with a computer.
1) Remove SD (or whatever) card and insert into computer, mount and copy
pictures. As long as she isn't using raw images I can't imagining any camera
not being able to do this. It also has the advantage that it doesn't flatten
the batteries of the camera while you do this. If she is shooting RAW then if
it's very new some cameras don't have RAW support yet.
2) Connect camera to computer with USB cable. Most cameras should be happy to
do this using gphoto, again the very latest cameras may not be supported. You
can use gphoto directly from the command line or easily with several GUI
tools.
3) As has been suggested some SD cards can connect to a WiFi hot spot as can
some cameras. I no experience of this so I can't comment.
I've connected several cheap and not so cheap cameras to Linux boxes and they
all just worked. My current top-end Canon compact camera did need the latest
version of ufraw to read the RAW files, and that wasn't in Debian stable so I
had to compile from scratch but it does work perfectly well once installed.
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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it
fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will
make it any better, it will only make it more expensive and foolish.
-- Frank Pick, lecture to the Design and Industries Assoc, 1916
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