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02/13/2004 08:04:53 AM · #1 |
Hello people,
After many years of using Microsoft Windows, and having to put up with a good number of bugs, hang-ups, crashes, and blue screens, I have now decided to give Linux a whirl in its place. I have noticed that the software that came with my camera only states it is compatable with windows, and I was wondering if there are any other olympus and Linux users on here who could reassure me that everything runs quite smoothly.
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02/13/2004 08:30:27 AM · #2 |
I use my Nikon 5700 (and my Casio 8000sx) before that purely on Linux.
Any reasonably new Linux distro can use the most of the cameras as either a USB mass storage device OR a PTP compatible device.
As for the specific apps - I use Digikam
Most likely your camera will be autodetected
Just plug it in and try :)
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02/13/2004 02:18:09 PM · #3 |
I have been using linux exclusively for all of my digital photography since 1999. For the most part these days, every linux program that talks to a digtal camera uses the gphoto2 library ( www.gphoto.org ), including "digikam" as mentioned in a previous post. The library supports a wide range of cameras. When I got my new canon a70, I never even opend the windows software for it, I plugged it into the usb and gphoto detected it. The only thing to watch out for is to make sure that the permissions on the usb devices are set so you can read them as a normal user.
The nice thing about using linux for camera handling is that you apply a lot of automation to the process. I have written some scripts on my computer so that when I plug in the camera, the hotplug system detects it, runs the gphoto2 command line program to download the pictures, renames and moves the pictures according to the time stamp in the exif data and inserts an entry for each picture into my database and makes a thumbnail and small version of the picture (if any of yall are interested what i wrote, let me know , I need testers)
Once you get you pictures on linux, you need to learn to love Gimp ( www.gimp.org ). The new 2.0 (pre)release completly rocks |
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