I bought myself a shiny new little camera. It’s a Panasonic Lumix FX-10. There’s not much to say about it, except for my amazement at how cheap technology has become. That means, there will be a lot more photos in this blog once again.

The camera is 6 megapixels with decent image stabilization in the subcompact class. It uses SD cards, which just fits nicely with the eeePC heading the same way.

The following sentence contains lots of keywords to help people googling for error messages, please ignore if you did not come here by these means: The Panasonic Lumix DMC FX-10 gets easily detected as a USB external drive by ubuntu. Not by gphoto2 though, which aborts with an “unspecified error”. Disable automatic camera detection in System - Preferences - Removable Drives and Media.