Rumor has it that Ron Hudson may have mentioned these words: Dunno about iPhoto, but my Nikon D70 had minimal support for anything, anywhere, and Nikon wanted $99 for their software to do raw editing which would crush any computer with less than 1.5Gig of RAM. Having sold my 2 each 1Gig sticks this spring as I wasn't doing much photo stuff then, that didn't seem like much of an option... until... Bibble 4 came out, supporting my D70 and so much more. The Pro version is $129, but runs fine in 512Meg, and... runs under Linux and MacOS too! With the 1 license! The author (Eric) asks that you only run it on one platform at a time, of course... There's a light version for $69 which doesn't have some of the higher-end batch features and is only licensed for one platform, which you choose at purchase. *Excellent* technical support through the forums, and he has a very flexible upgrade policy. http://www.bibblelabs.com/ [[ If you want a sample of how generous he was with upgrades from version 3, try here: http://www.bibblelabs.com/system/weborder_new.jsp ]] No affiliation other than my being a very happy customer... Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | A new truth in advertising slogan sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy... zmerch(a)30below.com | ...in oxymoron!"

Gordon> My girlfriend does a lot of digital photography. Her Fuji Gordon> basically just appears as a usb-storage device, which she can Gordon> then mount. A little bit of bash scripting involving convert Gordon> and jhead quickly thumbnails, tags and catalogues the images. The same goes for, at least, Nikon's compact-flash based 880 camera (and probably all the others at least from Nikon). You can buy a $10 CF to PCMCIA adapter and plug that into your laptop. It'll look like a plain ordinary FAT filesystem, which Win or Linux will happily process. If you're using "raw" format, then you'll need a program that knows the particular camera's proprietary format. (It seems that recent Photoshop versions do; it's not something that applies to my camera.) If the camera uses JPG or TIFF format, you'll be able to use any decent graphics tool to manipulate those. I wish I knew why iPhoto transfers across the USB at less than 1/2 the speed that the Nikon hack on Win98 does... paul