Digital cams & Linux

[ne]

On Saturday 22 December 2001 03:28 pm, you wrote:
> 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/


I was just looking at the gphoto home page for my own camera, an olympus 
c-3040 and if your willing to experiment, the beta 2.0 release of gphoto may 
work for for you. 

dave