On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > John S. J. Anderson wrote: > > > >>>>> On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital > > Ilya> camera which can be used with Linux? > > > > Have you considered the Sony Mavica series? They write picture files > > to standard VFAT filesystem floppy disks > > I have wondered about this. I fill up a 32MB memory card pretty > quickly when taking pictures at 3.1Mpixels. A single picture is > usually around 1.1 to 1.3 MB, so that would be one floopy per > picture. I wouldn't want to (1) carry that many floppies, (2) to > forced to change the floppy after every picture and (3) feed-in > all these (slow reading) floppies to my PC later. > > This made me think the floppy thing was not viable. How does it > work out for you?
I've seen a review for a camera (by Sony I think) that uses LS-120 disks and talks via USB. Nice sounding thing is you can also use the LS-120 drive for anything. But, anything with a drive will probably suck more battery. I've used several different Epson cameras with good success... -- Eric G. Miller <[email protected]>
