On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 18:56 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > It can focus through glass, which I think compact cameras cannot. Some can. My Canon PowerShot A520 can, it's got through the lens focussing using the image *AND* infra red assist. The latter being something you can turn off, and probably want to, to photograph through glass. 'tis only a compact, and generally fully automatic, but has manual overrides for most things. If it weren't for the costs of film processing, and the delays, I'd much prefer to keep on using my 35 mm SLR, but this one is quite nice for a digital compact. The biggest bugbear, for me, is the delays in turning on, and after you press the shutter. I cannot take candid shots with it, nor any other type of spur of the moment shot. I can use it with Linux, it's actually less of a pain than plugging the camera in to Windows. But the USB connection is not using the camera as a plugged in USB drive, it uses one of the transfer protocols. I found it much quicker and convenient to pull the SD card out and plug the card into my computer. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
