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Downloading Images From Your Digital Camera

There are many different types and sources of images that you're likely to encounter as you use Fedora Core 4 in the future. Without a doubt, however, digital cameras are the most common source of images in personal computing today. No longer a novelty or a professional-level tool costing thousands, digital cameras have become as popular as film cameras once were.

Unfortunately, there is currently no universally accepted communications standard for digital cameras, so no single application can support all digital cameras in existence. To make matters more complicated, most digital camera vendors don't release drivers for Linux systems like Fedora Core 4. Because of this, it might be more difficult to ...