Uploading digital photos

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

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 ?

Perhaps this site has some useful information:

http://www.linux-usb.org/

In general, cards that use CompactFlash and SmartMedia formats
seem to be supported. We've got lots of devices at work that boot
from and read CompactFlash all the time (DiskOnChip comes to mind
because I played with one of these recently).

Kurt
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