Re: [LUG] Buying a digital camera

[Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Cornelius wrote:

> On 5/17/06, *Kai Hendry* <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     This is what I do. The gadget costs only a few quid. Don't bother with
>     those camera picture exchange protocols. They rarely work.
>
>     Though I'm probably going to snap up a small IXUS 800 with image
>     stabilisation. No more blurred digital pics, hopefully.
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got an IXUS 500 and it is a very good camera, it also works 
> perfectly with the gphoto2 client for downloading pictures via USB but 
> as i often loose the cable, i agree, a USB card reader is the far 
> easier option.
>
> As a note my camera does not work out of the box on many of the 
> windows machines here at work, but it did work on my debian system 
> "out of the box", also my card reader did not behave on windows but 
> works *perfectly* on linux
>
> Robin

Am I right in thinking that a good card reader will also be DMA enabled 
whereas the camera itself won't have that feature, so using a card 
reader is actually faster?  Or am I being daft?

Grant.

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