Re: [Sheflug] Digi Camera

[Denis Nikitin <dnn [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 22:48, Paul Sims wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 17:38, Douglas G Mckendrick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm running mandrake 9.1, when I plug in the digi cam it recognizes it and
> > allows me to open up a removable hrd drive icon on my desk top.
> > What I would like to do is download all images automatically to
> > /home/pictures, when I mount it.  The imaging and digi cam software already
> > installed doesn't seem to recognise my camera, so at the moment I am relying
> > on the os to recognize the camera installed.
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Doug
> 
> I just joined the digi brigade too! My Olympus Camedia C220 is not
> recognized by the GUI digi camera apps in MDK 9.1 just as yours isn't,
> aThis is because your clever camera is actually a USB mass storage
> device. As you can access the files on your camera the USB mass storage
> module is doing as it should. Digi cam apps like FLPhoto use the GPhoto
> libs, which recognise the propriatary camera comms & data formats but
> not cameras which present themselves as ordinary storage devices. 
> 
> A nice upshot of this of course is that you can upload files to the
> camera to copy elsewhere if you don't have a CD burner. 
> 
> You can simply copy the files off to where you want to put them using
> the file manager of your choice or alternatively write a little script
> to mount the camera then copy all files to, say, /home/camera, then
> unmount it again. 
> 
> BTW if anybody has the same camera as me & has trouble getting it
> working with Linux I can offer a tip or two.
Am I getting old or what?
People _CAN_ copy pictures from their cameras to hd and it's not
enough?!!!
Jeez! Am I missing something?! Mine even not recognized by "MDK 9.1" and
yet I am not that upset. 
Just kidding, but you guys want to be a way too comfortable. :))))
Best regards,
Denis.
P.S.  I am very very annoyed myself I cannot have this nice feature of
'copy/past' with my Fuji and Redhat 9 and whatever I wrote before was a
jealous joke.

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