Digital camera in Fedora Core 4.

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Monday 05 September 2005 11:26 am Josh Coffman kindly wrote:
> Since another thread was talking about digital cameras
> & linux, I thought I'd share my experience.
>
> This weekend I had my first try at using my digital
> cam with linux (Fedora Core 4). I have a Kodal dx6440,
> which I access by plugging into USB2.
>
> First thing I did was to boot my laptop windows
> partition to copy and burn the pictures to cd just in
> case.
>
> I don't have the kodak software installed so I got the
> typical windows USB digital camera interface. It's
> rather lame if you ask me, but it worked.
>
> Then I moved one chair over to my desktop with Fedora
> Core 4 desktop and plugged it in. FC4 gave me a dialog
> that it detected the camera and loaded drivers. Then
> it gave me a dialog with thumbnails of the available
> pics. I just downloaded pics as easy as in windows
> with a dialog that was nicer.
>
> Neither windows nor the fc4 pic copies were as fast as
> using the Kodak program, but adequate. I'm very happy
> anyways cause I got what I wanted in FC4 without any
> special tweaking or installs.
>
> -j

That's nice to know. Congratulations!

Siri Amrit