Canon Rebel XTi Digital Camera and FC5

[Scott van Looy]

Today Charlie McVeigh did spake thusly:

> My wife is thinking about biting the bullet and switching from a film
> Canon Rebel EOS to the new Digital XTi.
>
> I have a couple of questions since we are running FC5 on the primary
> computer that we would use to snag and edit the pictures:
>
> i) Will the XTi be happy and communicate with FC5?

Yep, it mounts itself as mass storage and you can use f-spot to import 
the pics directly into the gallery

> ii) What are the options for Linux software that will work with the
> camera?

It just mounts as a drive under linux IIRC. So anything really.

> iii) Any ideas on what limitations that I will run into using Linux vs.
> Windoze?

The included Canon software won't work :P

> iv) I know that my wife will need to learn to use Gimp but would there
> be any advantage  to installing VMware and using the supplied Canon
> utilities (please I hope not!)?

Depends. The canon utilities included are:

a f-spot a like catalogue thing called ZoomBrowser EX, which is no biggy, 
f-spot's nicer anyways

A utility to stitch photos together (not sure if there's a linux 
equivalent)

A utility to control the camera from the PC (not sure if there's a linux 
equivalent) which lets you take photos direct from the PC via USB - handy 
for self portraits, but not hugely useful...

Software that lets you do time lapse photography (don't think there's a 
linux equivalent)

> I am happy to do the research myself but I not quite sure where to
> start.  Thanks in advance to anyone who has some experience with digital
> photography - you could take what I know about the subject and it
> wouldn't fill a thimble!

No probs. I don't know a huge amount, but I have a canon digital SLR and 
use it under both linux and windows with few issues...

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