Did I say gphoto? Sorry, I meant Adobe Photodeluxe.
gphoto has an 800-kilobyte
RPM, is GPLed, and talks to over 100 models of camera.
All kidding aside, why should I have to install 60 megs of software
to download pictures from a digital camera onto a Windows machine?
I'm feeling generous, so I'll throw the GIMP onto the Linux side,
even though it provides about an order of magnitude more image
manipulation functionality than does Adobe Photodeluxe. That's still
under 20 megs. How do people live this way? My conclusion: gphoto was
developed by people who were pissed off at Adobe Photodeluxe.
If you'll excuse me, I now have to save each of my 40 pictures
individually, convincing the program each time that I want to save it
in JPEG format (the way they're stored in the camera) instead of the
proprietary Adobe Photodeluxe format.
Thu Jun 22 2000 08:30:
I want to use gphoto to obtain pictures from my digital camera, but
it's horribly designed, over 50 megabytes in size, requires an 8 meg
helper app to talk to my particular model of camera, makes me agree
to an onerous licensing agreement, and puts me through the trouble
of making up fake personal information so that the authors of gphoto
won't be secretly sent my real personal information and my
personalized gphoto serial number the next time I connect the laptop
to the Internet.
under a Creative Commons License.