Uploading digital photos

[Joel Hammer]

Are the images recorded on the memory card as jpg's? Or, does the software
convert them to jpg's when they are read? I do not have much experience
with graphics, but, I have always thought of jpg's as a compromise.

Joel
 On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:28:00PM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Monday 28 October 2002 12:26 pm,Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I am looking at getting a digital camera.  I would like to be able to
> > upload photos from the camera's memory card to a linux computer. Are
> > there any types of memory cards/cameras which play nicely with linux?
> >
> > Thanks, Joel
> >
> Anything that takes a CompactFlash disk (there's another kind of disk, 
> too that I can't remember).  You can buy a USB-port reader for about 
> $30 and mount it like a hard disk and read the pictures as jpegs so you 
> don't need fancy software like jphoto.  I have a Canon S110 but again, 
> that doesn't matter if you just get the memory card reader.  There are 
> even readers that will take both kinds of memory card.  Check SanDisk 
> and Dazzle.
> 
> -- 
> Tony Alfrey
> tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
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