Uploading digital photos

[Tony Alfrey]

On Monday 28 October 2002 01:36 pm,Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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.

That's a good question and one that has sat in the back of my mind 
also.  There is no "software" involved in the reader, it simply mounts 
(at least on my box) as a SCSI device and the files have a .jpg 
extention.  Remember that jpegs can be made with a little or a lot of 
compression.  These little cameras don't have gobs of pixels anyway and 
each picture is under a megabyte but I will say that the resolution is 
much, much better than the typical jpeg that you might pull off of a 
webpage.  A typical jpeg on a web page might be a few tens of 
kilobytes.  Otherwise, webpages for people with dial up modems would 
take all day to load.  So a photo from a 2 or 3 megapixel camera is 
really very nice.

>
> 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.
> >
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