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Digital cameras have the balance of quality, features, and 
price that appeals to users looking for a fast and convenient
way to get images into their PC. You can spend a lot more -- or
a lot less -- for one than the $100 to $3000 (or even more) these cost, 
but you 
won't like the quality at the low end or the prices at the high end. 
With digital cameras, the best place to be is in the middle.

No other image-capture option for your computer matches the fun, 
immediacy, and convenience of a digital camera. Unlike with a 
scanner, you don't need an preexisting image: A digital 
camera lets you capture what you see. And unlike film-to-disk 
services, development is instantaneous: You don't have to wait 
hours or days before you can use an image on your computer.
Operating a digital camera is also inexpensive, because the only 
recurring cost is batteries. The camera's storage is reusable once you
download a batch of images. And since you don't have to pay for film 
processing, you can go wild.

Unfortunately, many digital camera manufacturers refuse to share
their camera communication specifications with their customers and
millions of users who run free operating systems.

This is a big obstacle to development of free photo applications,
and it blocks free software developers from writing free programs, 
that support the same features as the proprietary digital camera
programs for Microsoft Windows and MacOS that usually are shipped with 
the camera.   It renders the camera quite useless if you don't run 
one of those proprietary operating systems.
Introducing gPhoto2
gPhoto2 is a free, redistributable,
ready to use set of digital camera software
applications for Unix-like systems, written by a whole team of dedicated
volunteers around the world. It supports more than 
1800 cameras
gPhoto2 runs on a large range of UNIX-like operating system, including
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, etc. gPhoto is provided by major Linux distributions
like Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, etc.
libgphoto2 is freely available and distributed
under the terms of the 
GNU LGPL.; the other gphoto
programs are freely available and distributed under the terms of the 
GNU GPL.
Newer libgphoto2 versions also support Media Trans