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From: B Thomas on 11 Dec 2006 18:24
Hi,

After reading some reviews of Digital SLR cameras in the 500$ range I
am begining to like Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50. I use linux exclusively.
So I would like to know if this camera is compatible with linux. Also
would appreciate what to look for to ensure linux compatibility. Is
Picture Transfer Mode enough.

regards
b thomas

From: Måns Rullgård on 11 Dec 2006 19:29
B Thomas <thomasb(a)math.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> After reading some reviews of Digital SLR cameras in the 500$ range I
> am begining to like Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50. I use linux exclusively.
> So I would like to know if this camera is compatible with linux. Also
> would appreciate what to look for to ensure linux compatibility. Is
> Picture Transfer Mode enough.

You can always read the flash card with a USB card reader. That's
what I prefer myself as it's faster than accessing the camera
directly, and I can use regular filesystem tools (cp) to retrieve the
pictures.

--
M�ns Rullg�rd
mru(a)inprovide.com
From: ray on 11 Dec 2006 21:09
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:24:44 +0000, B Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After reading some reviews of Digital SLR cameras in the 500$ range I
> am begining to like Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50. I use linux exclusively.
> So I would like to know if this camera is compatible with linux. Also
> would appreciate what to look for to ensure linux compatibility. Is
> Picture Transfer Mode enough.
>
> regards
> b thomas

Best transfer method is a USB card reader - in which case the camera is
totally irrelevant.

From: Michael Mauch on 11 Dec 2006 23:45
B Thomas wrote:

> After reading some reviews of Digital SLR cameras in the 500$ range I
> am begining to like Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50. I use linux exclusively.
> So I would like to know if this camera is compatible with linux. Also
> would appreciate what to look for to ensure linux compatibility. Is
> Picture Transfer Mode enough.

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1650 shows the LC20 works
(with USB mass storage), a couple of Panasonics are listed on
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php (PtP), so the FZ50
will probably work as well.

And there's always the card reader option, which should be a lot faster
than the camera connection.

Michael

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