Digital Camera recommendations ...

[Alma J Wetzker]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:03:04AM -0500, Aakin N. Patel took 24 lines to write:
> ; 
> ; I've had 2 canon digital cameras (the S100, and then the S1 IS), and
> ; both are great. I haven't used them directly linked to my linux box,
> ; but both of them use compact flash cards, and using any card reader
> ; with the usb-storage module is easy. Compile in scsi disk support,
> ; modprobe uhci-hcd, modprobe usb-storage, and then mount /dev/sda1.
> 
> Vis-a-vis. "using any card reader with the usb-storage modules is easy,"
> I've had a bear of a time the with USBAT02-based readers (think
> Microtech Zio!) under 2.6. It seems the driver is just now getting
> to the point that it works. 
> 
> I was just admiring the Fujifilm FinePix S3100. $299 at Office Depot
> with a $100 mail-in rebate...
> 
> Kurt

I was just talking to someone about Fujifilm cameras.  It seems that they 
stagger the pixels instead of leaving them in a square grid.  That quality has 
earned their high end cameras "best picture" awards for the last several 
years.  If they are bringing that CCD down to lower end devices, I want one!

     -- Alma