Digital cams & Linux

joel jijoel at lava.net
Sat Dec 22 17:28:19 PST 2001


On Saturday 22 December 2001 02:38 pm, Rodney K wrote:
> I just got a digital camera (sony F707) and I would like to know how I
> download the pics from the cam to linux? The camera connects via USB. I
> have tried using gphoto for the downloading, but a usb port is not one
> of the available port options. Any ideas?
>
> Rodney

Mmmmmm... Nice camera! 

gphoto is a great program, but doesn't really understand USB yet. You may 
want to give jPhoto a shot. It's a command-line tool, but does have support 
for the Sony DSC-F707. It can be found at: http://jphoto.sourceforge.net/

--Joel

btw, My own camera uses CompactFlash cards (instead of MemorySticks). I have 
a CF adapter that plugs into a USB slot, so to get my pictures, I eject the 
card from the camera, plug it into the adapter, *mount* it (/dev/sda1) to my 
filesystem (/mnt/pix ;-), and copy the pictures to wherever I want them. 
Downloading pictures this way is really fast and easy, if it'll work with 
your system.



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