digital camera support in Linux

Linux supports over 800 cameras through the gPhoto2 digital camera software package, which comes bundled with your system. What gPhoto2 essentially consists of is a collection of drivers that
works in the background to tell your computer how to communicate with your camera. To see if your camera is supported, go to the gPhoto2 website (www.gphoto.org), scroll down, and click 800 cameras (the number may actually be higher when you check). On that page you will find a complete
list of all the cameras supported by gPhoto2. If your camera isn’t on the list, it most likely means (as the page points out) that your camera is so old that there is little demand for support for it or that it is so new that there hasn’t been enough time to develop support for it. Of course, gPhoto2 is constantly being updated, so if your camera isn’t on the list now, it could be in the near future. Updating gPhoto2 with Synaptic now and again should keep you as up to date as possible.