[plug] Digital cameras with gphoto/linux...

[William Kenworthy]

My Olympus C300 looks like a removable USB drive (64MB flash card). 
Just plug it in, "mount /mnt/cam" - it uses a msdos file system.  Usual
removable usb module glitches though with having to reprobe the module
if unplug/plug back in before self cleaning resets it.

Camera is 3 mp (wouldnt go for less if you want to replace the family
snapper), takes superb photos in good light, but not so good in poor
light where my old tape videocam was still OK.  Has a real zoom, and
digital zoom as well.

BillK



On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 23:38, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 11:25:17PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> | >Also, re. what Craig was saying about 'universal USB drivers' - most USB
> | >cameras and card readers these days support either USB mass storage (in
> | >which case the camera appears just like a hard drive) or PTP ("picture
> | >transfer protocol" - supported by gphoto2 and its various front ends).
> | 
> | From the (5 or so) cameras I've used with my PC so far, it seems to be 
> | mostly the latter, and mostly with various quirks and bugs to boot. Yay. 
> | Perhaps I've just been unlucky.
> 
> In my experience they're mostly PTP, too.  (Admittedly the sample
> standard deviation is infinity as I've only had experience with using
> one USB camera under Linux.)  No real quirks that I've noticed, though.
> Perhaps I just had low expectations, or was lucky.
> 
> | USB mass storage class devices seem rare, alas. MP3 players and digital 
> | cameras should both use it, but both do so only rarely :-(
> 
> ISTR someone else on this list mentioning a USB mass storage digital
> camera.  (Leon and his flashy Sony camera?)
> 
> Cameron.
> 
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