[ale] great digital camera?

[Bill Sirinek]

I will second the Camedia. I have an Olympus Camedia C-3000Z and its very
nice. My USB smartmedia reader mounts up like a scsi disk, and the camera
is also supported by gphoto2 should I decide to load the pictures up from
the camera directly into konqueror or something.

I also will say to the person who started this thread, that any camera
that only does 800x600 is not a "great digital camera". You can buy cheap
1-megapixel cameras but dont expect to be able to take high-quality
pictures with them. I'd spend the extra bucks and go at least 3
megapixel if you plan on making any of your pictures into actual prints
(and for that I recommend shutterfly.com). For quick-and-dirty pictures
like taking snapshots of stuff you're going to sell on ebay or something,
1 megapixel is fine.

With the advent of 4-5 megapixel cameras, the 3.3s have dropped in price.
Mine was $499 when I bought it a year ago. Mysimon.com now lists several
between $200-$300, including the Olympus Camedia C-3020.

Bill


On 19 Aug 2002, Danny Cox wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:03, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > I am looking for a good digital camera that is compatible with Linux. I guess 
> > my resolution should be 800x600. I just want to take snapshots - like a 35mm 
> > camera or disposable camera would. Can anyone recommend a nice camera?
> 
> 	I have an Olympus Camedia 3040Z, and like it a lot.  I usually just use
> it as a point-n-shoot.  It uses SmartMedia, which is supported by the
> SDDR09 module of the USB-Storage sub-sub-system.  The only change I'd
> make would be to make it a true through-the-lens viewfinder.  Fuji makes
> several that do this, by using a magnified LCD screen in the
> viewfinder.  But even using that, you apparently don't get 100% of the
> final image in the viewfinder.


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