On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:03, Kristian Rink wrote: > 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/
I connected my FujiFilm 900 to an USB port and rebooted. I mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/tmp and my pictures were accessible. /dev/sda0 was already occupied. BTW this high end point and shoot offers 9.1 megapixel (tops) and also dcraw. The only major drawback is the lack of a flash port. I use Slackware 11. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
