[TriLUG] Digital camera recommendations

[Adrian Likins]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:53:21AM -0700, Ed Hill wrote:
> H. Wade Minter wrote:
> 
> > I've heard from Santa's Little Elf (Mrs. Minter) that I'll be getting a
> > digital camera for Christmas.  I run FreeBSD on my desktop and Linux on my
> 
> 
> Hi Wade,
> 
> I've had very good experiences with the Kodak DC-260, DC-265, and
> DC-290 series that use OpenDigita
> 
>    http://ods.sourceforge.net/
> 
> as their driver.  They work smoothly with both serial and USB (and
> supposedly IrDA, thought I have not tried it) on all 2.4 and later
> 2.2 linux kernels.  I've had them setup with both serial and USB
> connections being driven by Perl scripts to take long (thousands of
> images over weeks of work) series of images for experiments in our
> labs.  Very stable & reliable.  Its great to be able to control them
> (that is: shoot, download, delete, repeat) over a serial or USB
> connection.
> 
> They are being phased out by Kodak so you might be able to get a
> DC-290 for a good deal.
> 
<aol/time-warner/netscape/sun>me too!</>

	I like my dc290. It's starting to get a bit long in the
tooth, and it's a bit big, but I've had pretty good luck with it.

	And most importantly, you can play doom on it. See
http://digita.mame.net/


Adrian