Uploading digital photos

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:48:38PM -0800, Susan Macchia wrote:
>All this conversation has peaked my interest.  I have a nikon coolpix
>950 and have been using Tygemo/PhotoPC (thanks Lonnie) because gphoto
>doesn't work very well.  And I haven't been able to get the gphoto2
>toolset working with a GUI (nor have I really had the time to fiddle
>with it).  
>
>A card reader has to be faster than the camera itself, not to mention
>battery where.  So here is my question: does anyone know whether any
>card reader will do the trick (usb of course) or are there specific
>brands that work better with Linux ?

I can't speak to the differences between the various USB readers as I've
only used them with my PowerMac G4 running OS X.  My Linux reader is a
PCMCIA adapter for my laptop which takes the SmartMedia cards from my
Olympus 2020 Zoom just fine, treating it like a little IDE hard drive (I've
added the device to the amd automounter configuration and written a three
line shell script to copy everything from the card to the current
directory).  I don't use the PCMCIA very much now since I got a 128MB card
for the Olympus since I rarely need to download until I get back into the
office.  It's nice not to have to cart my laptop around just to download
images from the 8MB card that came with the camera.

The CompactFlash adapter I have used on the Mac is by Dazzle, and was about
$19.95.  The SmartMedia is from www.digitalfilm.com.  I got both of these
from CompuUSA, and they Just Work(tm).

Bill
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