[BUGS] making photos and toor access

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 14 February 2008 at 19:03:50 +1100, Jonathan Michaels wrote:
a> what sort of dslr's are you guys using and how compatible/usable are
> tehy in the berkeley unix world, what sort of difficulies are common
> ?? opinion, options, war stories would be appreciated
> recoomendations but more so not with a 'barge pole'.

This is a topic near to my heart.  Particularly in the last 6 to 9
months I've spent a lot of time with digital photography.  For
background going back over 40 years, take a look at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/photos/index.php

To answer your immediate questions: I'm currently using an Olympus
E-510 SLR and a Nikon "CoolPix" L1 point and shoot for the few
occasions when I don't have the Olympus with me.

I chose the Olympus for a number of features:

- "live view"--view through the monitor before you take the photo.
  Most SLRs still require the viewfinder, and if you're used to a
  Spotmatic, you'll note that not everything has got better in the
  last 40 years.  I also have (thanks to my daughter) a buggered Canon
  EOS 20D, and on both cameras the viewfinders are darker and smaller
  than the Pentax, and manual focusing is pretty much hit and miss
  without microprism or even split image help.

- Image stabilizer.

- Ultrasonic sensor cleaner.  Digital sensors are particularly
  susceptible to dust.

It turns out that the "live view" is of limited utility: once you turn
it on, the mirror pops up and the autofocus cuts out.

I'll talk about how I process them while answering another message in
this thread.

Greg
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