Article 48706 of rec.photo.digital:
From: cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,rec.photo.digital
Subject: Re: digital cameras with Linux?
Date: 17 Mar 1998 03:09:38 GMT
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On 16 Mar 1998 19:11:56 GMT, Eugene Crosser <crosser@average.org> wrote:
>In article <6e65e1$9eg@eve.enteract.com>,
>> There is some beta software that's supposed to work with the Agfa E307.
>> I'm going to try it with my E1280. I'll let you know how it works. Even if
>> it does work I suspect I'll continue to grab the images in Windows so I
>> can get the benefit of the Photogenie software. I can access the Windows
>> partitions from Linux in any case so it's not a big deal.
>
>See http://www.average.org/digicam/
>
>`photopc' program works with Agfa, Epson, Olympus and Sanyo digital
>cameras, supported platforms are: several UNIX flavors, Win32 and DOS.
>Free with source code and (reverse-engineered) protocol documentation.
>Have fun!

I'm now seriously considering getting a digital camera; I started
checking them out about 6 months ago, and did not pursue it very far
then as prices were pretty high.  Prices seem to have fallen (hmmm... do
they come out with new models and new, higher prices just for
Christmas?), the market has matured a bit, and there seem to be rather
more models supported by Linux than there were "way back when."

Appended below is a list of the digital camera links that I have
collected thus far.

I'm having a bit of a hard time selecting between the manifold models
that are available.  It appears that *many* are nicely supported by
Linux; I'm thinking about biasing towards the Agfa 307 as there are some
really good prices on it these days (about $250USD). 

It would be a nifty idea to have a web page with CGIs to collect
Linux-oriented information such as:
a) Users of particular models, and
b) URLs for "favorite" driver sites...

<item> <url url="http://rainbow.rmii.com/~plugin/" name="Digital Camera
Guide">

<item><url
url="http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/itojun/digital-camera/"
name="Sundry Digital Camera Resources">

<item><url url="http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~XG2K-HYS/qvprotocol-e.html"
name="serial communication protocol of QV-10 and QV-100 (Digital
Cameras)">

<item><url url="ftp://ftp.csl.sony.co.jp/pub/QV10/unix" name="Casio QV10
Digital Camera Utilities for UNIX">

<item><url url="http://home/pacific.net.sg/~bhepple/qvplay/qvplay.html"
name="QV Player">

<item><url url="http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xg2k-hys" name="QV Play
Utilities">

<item><url url="ftp://ftp.ssc.com/lj/listings/issue47/2664.tgz" name="QV
Play utility from Linux Journal article">

<item><url url="http://www.asasi-net.or.jp/~XG2K-HYS/index-e.html"
name="Casio Digital Camera stuff">

<item><url url="ftp://ftp.eecs.wsu.edu/pub/hakimian" name="Linux Driver
for Kodak DC20">

<item><url
url="http://home.t-online.de/home/oliver.hartmann/dc20secr.htm"
name="DC20 Secrets - ein Deutsche Pagen fur der Kodak Kamera">

<item><url url="http://www.chinon.co.jp/dse/es-1000/es-1000.htm"
name="Chinon ES-1000 Digital Camera (Compatible with Kodak DC20)">

<item><url url="http://www.average.org/digicam/" name="PhotoPC Tool
(www.average.org)"> 

<p> These tools are known to work with cameras based on a ``Fujitsu''
chipset, that include cameras from Agfa, Epson, and Olympus.  Sanyo
cameras should also be supported; this is thus far untested. 

<item><url url="http://www.mit.edu/~mkgray/ephoto/" name="Linux software
for Agfa ePhoto 307">
  
<p><url url="mailto:bousch%linotte.uucp@topo.math.u-psud.fr" name="
Thierry Bousch"> has reported that this software also works with the
Olympus Camedia C-410L, and that Agfa, Epson, Olympus and Sanyo digital
cameras seem to share the same protocols... 

<item><url url="ftp://ftp.csl.sony.co.jp/pub/C-400L/unix/" name="Olympus
Camedia 400L">

<item><url url="http://www1.yk.rim.or.jp/~mamo/Computer/DS-7/get_ds7"
name="UNIX-based software for Fuji DS-7">

<item><url url="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mrd/camera/dclinux.html"
name="Mark Dobie's Software for Sanyo DCs for Linux">

<item><url url="http://www.itojun.org/itojun.html" name="Sundry Digital
Camera drivers"> including Ricoh DC-3/DC-300

<item><url url="ftp://ftp.doe.carleton.ca/pub/dfs/dmc.tar.gz" name="SANE
Driver for Polaroid DMC">

<p>The Polaroid DMC is a fairly high-end CCD camera designed for
microscopy.  Unfortunately, it only comes with Windoze or Mac software.
Fortunately, David Skoll (of <url url="pims.html#REMIND" name="Remind">
fame) has written a driver that works with Linux, and probably with
other UNIX-like systems... 

<item><url url="http://www.hamrick.com/dc120/" name="Kodak DC120 .KDC
file format info">

<item><url url="http://www.df.lth.se/~roubert/NV-DC1000.html"
name="NV-DC1000 / PV-DC1000 free drivers for Linux and BeOS">
-- 
Win32 sucks so hard it could pull matter out of a Black Hole. -- Pohl Longsine
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