Re: [Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.

["Damien J Dye" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right digital camera's are supported by Linux and so are compact flash and
smart media readers.

so the first thing you need to decide is how you are going to connect the
camera to the PC. directly or via one of the media readers mention above.

your best option is to connect using one of the readers.

secondly

Your computer sounds like it's and AT form factor. so if that's the case you
need to vast maplin and get some USB port which will connect to the
terminals on the motherboard. they will fill on expansion bay, either at the
front using a drive bay, or at the back of the machine on an expansion
plate.

hope this helps you will your purchase

Damien

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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: [Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.


> Hello,
> Its my 21st soon and my mum has offered to get me a digital camera. But I
> have my concerns over the transfer of images from it to my PC. Since I
dont
> run windows whatsoever I need to know it will work with Linux. Im assuming
> there is software out there to cope with the transfer but I also have the
> problem of the actual connection.
>
> Im sure that my motherboard supports USB as there is an option in the BIOS
to
> disable it, but I have no plug at the back which could possibly be USB,
> although I admit I have no idea what a USB plug looks like. Now assuming
that
> all digital camera's use USB I could be a bit stuck, and may well have to
ask
> for something else instead.
>
> So should I invest in some kind of plug and attatch it to part of the
> motherboard, or are there cameras out there which are quite happy to use
the
> parallel port, or should I give up altogether because there's no software
out
> there which could possibly help?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK.
> "Those who shun unix are forced to reinvent it."
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