shopping help needed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Maureen Thornton wrote:
> Has anyone found a WATERPROOF camera that uses Linux - not the other OS!
> We are off to the Caribbean on the weekend and have been shopping for a
> disposable type waterproof camera (read cheap).  All I have been able to
> find is the type that you shoot, download via USB to Windows or Mac.
> This will not work with our Linux laptop and we cannot find anything
> compatible. (Other than of course adding WINE to the laptop.)

Why do you want to camera to run linux?  I just want it to work with
linux, which certainly any Canon I have ever used did, either as USB
mass storage, or using pictbridge or similar with gphoto.

Of course taking the SD card out and putting it in a reader works too.

Now if you are talking video cameras, then there is the issue of which
codec it uses for the video and what it uses for transfers.  I haven't
played with any of those in a while, other than my father's sony which
uses firewire and standard DV mpeg data, which linux has no problem
dealing with.

As for waterproof, that's a job for the case.  You can get waterproof
cases for many digital cameras, often both from the maker and 3rd partys
(often much better than the camera makers cases).

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Len Sorensen
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