GSMART 300 DRIVER FOR GPHOTO2 ============================= Note : this camera is also know as "Casio LV-10", under the same vendor and product IDs (Model actually tested) This is a very basic camera which enables to take pictures, delete last picture or delete all pictures. Pictures (JPEG format) can be stored in two sizes : 640x480 or 320x240. In fact, this is not exactly true. The pictures are all 640x480, but the "smaller" ones are just poor quality, so that it becomes decent only after resizing to 320x240. Thumbnails are downloadable from the camera in YYUV format for "big" pictures ONLY. To perform these operations, the Windows driver uses an interpolation software which acts as this : For lower quality, 640x480 pictures are downloaded, and converted to 320x240. In the same way, 80x60 thumbnails are generated. For higher quality, 80x60 thumbnails are downloaded in YYUV and converted to bitmap. Strangely enough, 640x480 picture are also converted into pictures of the same size by the interpolation software, resulting in a disk-size about 2 times greater ! (but no visible loss of quality) The gsmart300 driver for gphoto just outputs the higher quality pictures as they are stored in the camera, as well as bitmap thumbnails. Lower quality pictures are left 640x480, and no thumbnail is provided. Jérôme Lodewyck