[plug] Digital cameras with gphoto/linux...

[Ben Jensz]

Sorry to dig up old threads.  But in reply to this, I've picked myself 
up a cheaper 3MP digital camera whilst I've been here in Adelaide.  I've 
got a Minolta DiMage E323.  It cost me $440 for the base camera (plus 
some more for a 128Mb SD card and some rechargeable AAs).

I'd say the image quality is around as good as the A70 I had, but it 
doesn't give you as much control over features.  e.g. shutter control, 
aperture control, ISO equivalencies etc.  As a simple point and shoot 
camera its fine.

With some help from Leon Brooks, it works under Linux fine.  Its just 
seen as a mass USB storage device (so you just mount it and browse the 
images/movies).

So if David who originally started this thread is still looking, thats 
perhaps one suggestion.


/ Ben


Ben Jensz wrote:

> I personally reckon you'll need to budget for $300-400 at a minimum 
> realistically for a digital camera.  Pretty much all of the cheap 
> digital cameras are fixed focal length, i.e. no optical zoom.  So any 
> zooming is "digital" zoom, i.e. interpolation, which produces very 
> poor quality images if used heavily.
>
> Personally I'd recommend a Canon A60, it has 3x optical zoom and is a 
> 2MP camera.  I had an A70 a few months back now (which is the 3MP 
> version of the A60) and the photos taken with it were great.
>
>
> / Ben
>
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