What kind of digital camera software is supported on Linux Ubuntu?

Question

All the digital cameras I've seen have software only supported by Windows or Macintosh. Does this mean Ubuntu users are left in the dust?

Answer 1

Ubuntu will support anything you need.



You can use gwenview (free, for KDE) or gqview (free, Gnome), ifranview on WIine, etc.. There's undoubtedly an image viewer pre-installed with your distro and there are many others available in the repository. Most also allow basic editing, such as cropping.



VLC (free) will play your video clips.



If you plan on shooting still images in RAW instead of JPG, there's rawstudio to convert your files into something manageable.



For advanced editing, there's GIMP (free) or you can use any recent version of Photoshop ($$$) in combination with Wine (free).



To transfer files to the computer, just pop the camera's memory card into the computer's built-in SD slot. If your computer doesn't have one, or if you plan on buying a dSLR that takes CF cards, invest $10 in a card reader.



The software disk included by camera manufacturers simply does some or all of the above with proprietary software. Sometimes the disk does include a Linux version. Most of the time the above software does a better job.

Answer 2

every time I have plugged a camera into a machine with Ubuntu installed, the USB device appears as a hard drive on the desktop workspace. right click, mount, and remember to UNMOUNT before disconnecting the usb.

Answer 3

Yes and no



We have Gimp, and it works diferrent yes but it works.



But also we have RawStudio and uf-raw. Allowing us to take the RAW files and process them just the same as an adobe product would.



If you really want to stick with Adobe and you might then have a dual boot system. Or run windows in an box so to say ;)