Andrew; [Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Thu, 03 May 2007 15:54:17 +0200]
> I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end > digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can > anyone advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in > order to be able to get pictures into GIMP for editing? In my opinion, the only thing _really_ worth paying attention to in relation to "the computer" / Gimp is making sure your camera is supported by dcraw [1], thus enabling you to read full-sized RAW pictures right off the device and do something useful to them without having to use the proprietary tool that usually comes with the camera. Everything else should be quite easy: * About storage, most of the DSLRs I know about run on CF cards, and you can get a decent USB card reader supporting CF and a bunch of other cards rather cheap nowadays. * Connecting directly to your machine (USB link between computer and camera), most cameras by now fortunately seem to be capable of being usb-storage, thus being handled more or less like an ordinary SCSI drive. There you go. ;) About Slackware, your mileage might vary as I don't know what drivers and/or features come packed with the distribution - running Ubuntu on various machines, and even my girlfriend (who does not really like computers that much, altogether) by now manages to easily transfer their digi-cam pictures to $HOME. Overally, however, choosing a DSLR you probably should focus on other technical aspects of the camera itself, but probably that's another story... ;) Cheers, Kristian [1] http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ -- Kristian Rink * http://zimmer428.net * http://flickr.com/photos/z428/ jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 176 2447 2771 "One dreaming alone, it will be only a dream; many dreaming together is the beginning of a new reality." (Hundertwasser) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
