[Gllug] Canon PowerShot S50

[Mark Preston]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:06, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
 >> Have you tried gphoto2 from the command line?
 >> gphoto2 --auto-detect
 >> (or --autodetect, can't remember off the top of my head)
 >>
 >> gphoto2 --get-all-files
 >>
 >> Also, try as root
 >> It may just be a permissions problem, I've had that on mine.

 >Yeah, I've tried this now, but the camera's not detected.
Richard Turner richard at disabledliving.org.uk  wrote:-
 >I'll settle for the dual-boot option I think -I've always believed in a
 >'horses-for-courses' approach to choosing an OS and whilst Linux has
 >been my sole OS quite happily for many months, and has met all my needs
 >until now, I'm not prepared to deprive myself or make my life harder
 >just to avoid using Windows :)

FWIW I've had success with getting an Olympus C-40 Zoom Camedia camera 
working under Linux. Here is a rough idea of what to try that may work 
if gPhoto etc won't work.
As root type
ps aux | grep usb

do this with no usb devices attached and you should get nothing printed 
to the screen. Then attach your camera to a usb port, switch it on, and 
type in the same command. This time you should get a line printed to the 
screen if your camera is recognised.
Then type
modprobe usb-storage

This should start the usb storage module.
Then make a directory to act as camera mountpoint eg
mkdir /mnt/camera

then mount the camera with the command
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

then type
cd /mnt/camera
then
ls
to see any directories/files
For my Olympus I do
cd /mnt/camera/dcim/100olymp/
then
cp p* /home/mark/photos
To erase the files on the camera I type
rm p*
(All the stored files/photos begin with p)
Then cd back to root home directory
and umount /mnt/camera

Naturally, once you've established that things work you can put
all these in a bash script.
Regards,
Mark Preston


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