[SLUG] Digital camera

[Paul Teasdale]

On Friday 17 December 2004 19:55, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> Digital camera. I'm thinking, I should be able to mount it as a disc
> but it seems not. The digital camera tool gives a dropdown of lots of
> cameras but nothing by Pentax. I mean .. Pentax, hardly a way out
> camera manufacturer. Auto detect detects no camera.
>
> How can I download my piccies?
>
> Cheers
> J

Hi John,

Which piece of software are you using to try and get the pictures off 
your camera? Or are you just trying to mount the flash memory card and 
use a file manager type program?

Does you camera use a USB connection to your PC or serial?

What model of camera is it?

I ask these questions because if it has some type of encryption or 
special format on the card (like some Sony models do) it may be more 
difficult to get going. This actually happened last week at the York 
Linux install fest with one of those USB pen drives. (I know it's not a 
camera memory card but they essentially the same technology).

With my camera (a Canon A70) you only need to plug it in to the USB port 
and everything else is done automagically. You are correct in thinking 
however that the flash memory in the camera is mounted it just does it 
automatically via the usb hotplug module. I can then use camera 
software (Digikam in my case) or copy the images directly from memory 
via a file manager or indeed command-line.

If you give us a bit more information and what you've tried so far then 
we'll try and get you going.

Cheers,

Paul.

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