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My friend is getting a new point and shoot and wants to know if there are any that have Linux compatible software for uploading.

At the moment she has to do it on a windows machine in the house which networked to the Linux and transfer that way but it is rather a pain and she would like to bypass the windows machine completely.

I know nothing about Linux so I thought Id ask you clever lot!! :)
 
Janice said:
My friend is getting a new point and shoot and wants to know if there are any that have Linux compatible software for uploading.

At the moment she has to do it on a windows machine in the house which networked to the Linux and transfer that way but it is rather a pain and she would like to bypass the windows machine completely.

I know nothing about Linux so I thought Id ask you clever lot!! :)
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Depends what flavour of linux she is using but it should 'just work'. eg. if she's using Ubuntu, F-Spot is installed as standard and should recognise the camera and pick it up straight away. If she installs either F-Spot or Shotwell, I think both work almost automatically with most cameras.

Images can then be viewed and/or edited with the Gimp. I'm assuming she won't need Raw conversion but if she does, dcraw is easy to install and run with Gimp.

I'm surprised she can't get her current camera to work. I'm not aware of any incompatibilities with Linux (even my iphone works fine and we all know what Apple are like for tethering you to their way of life!)

Hope that helps.
 
Not something I've done myself, but any reasonably modern Linux distro will have support for USB mass storage devices (also used in things like USB memory sticks). Get a card reader, pop the camera's memory card in: job done.

If you want to use Picture Transfer Protocol and load direct from a camera which uses that rather than Mass Storage Mode

Wikipedia said:
PTP on Linux and other free software/open source operating systems is supported by a number of libraries, such as libgphoto and libptp, libraries used by applications such as digiKam and F-Spot.
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Your options for RAW processing will be rather more limited than on Windows or Mac OS X, but that's unlikely to be an issue with a compact.
 
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Thanks guys. The camera she has now is 7 years old so maybe when she buys new it will work.
 
Musicman said:
Get a card reader, pop the camera's memory card in: job done.
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I have linux (ubuntu 10) and that's what I do. Never bothered attaching the camera to my PC, even when I used windows xp.
 
If the current one is 7 years old, I suppose it's possible it might use a proprietary protocol if the camera's plugged in directly to the computer. :thinking:

did she never try using a card reader with Linux box?
 
I'm pretty certain Gimp does raw conversion now. The mac version seems to anyway.
 
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