[Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.

[Richard Fletcher <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
Its my 21st soon and my mum has offered to get me a digital camera. But I 
have my concerns over the transfer of images from it to my PC. Since I dont 
run windows whatsoever I need to know it will work with Linux. Im assuming 
there is software out there to cope with the transfer but I also have the 
problem of the actual connection.

Im sure that my motherboard supports USB as there is an option in the BIOS to 
disable it, but I have no plug at the back which could possibly be USB, 
although I admit I have no idea what a USB plug looks like. Now assuming that 
all digital camera's use USB I could be a bit stuck, and may well have to ask 
for something else instead.

So should I invest in some kind of plug and attatch it to part of the 
motherboard, or are there cameras out there which are quite happy to use the 
parallel port, or should I give up altogether because there's no software out 
there which could possibly help?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK.
"Those who shun unix are forced to reinvent it."
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