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FinePix F30

December 26th, 2006

I got a Fuji FinePix F30 for Christmas (Thanks Mum & Dad!) and a GorillaPod tripod-type-thing (Thanks, bro!) to hold it up. Its really cool and a very good replacement for the camera I had, which was stolen earlier this year. Here’s a picture of the F30 and GorillaPod.

So the killer feature of the F30 is its “high-ISO sensitivity”, basically meaning it can take better photos at night or indoors without a flash. There is a good review of the F30 here, and one of the Canon Ixus 800IS which was the runner-up for my Christmas list. I figured that I take a large number of photos inside or at night, so the F30 makes better sense.

After playing with it for a while and taking (very) few photos (it has a tiny internal memory, so get a memory card) I tried to connect it to my Linux laptop. It didn’t work…

Turns out, the F30 uses Picture Transfer Protocol, not the more standard USB-storage. Happily, an upgrade to libgphoto-2.2.1 and after that, DigiKam worked fine.

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