[Wolves] Digikam was If its broke don't fix it

[Kevan]

 --- Andy Wootton <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk>
wrote: 
> Mo Awkati wrote:
> 
> > --- Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 
> >  
> >
> >> 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>....
> >>> I need a bit of advice regarding a USB
> >>>connection digital camera.  
> >>>
> >>>Kevan
> >>>
> >>i Kevan
> >>
> >>I use Fujifilm Finepix S5000. Digikam ships with
> >>SUSE,
> >>if not already installed install it from YAST,
> from
> >>its menu tell it what your camera is and away you
> >>go.
> >>PS: SUSE detects the camera as a mass storage
> >>device,
> >>and may take a minute or two to get the icon on
> the
> >>desktop.
> >>
> >>Good luck 
> >>
> >>Mo
> >>    
> >>
> Kevan,
> 
> I'd go for it here. Mo's suggestion is right for
> something good but at 
> the cheap and crappy end of the market it can be far
> more fun(?) What 
> are you trying to get working?
> 
> Woo

Weeeeeeell..... Unfortunately it aint a decent Fuji
digcam.  It's a brand called Concord.  Very good
results, in fact better than my mates Canon.  Digikam
does support a couple of Concord cameras and I did
initially try those.  SuSE did indeed find the camera
but it couldn't read it.  I contacted the
manufacturers and fairly predictably couldnt help
because they don't support Linux.  I did send them a
reply e-mail telling them to get their finger out and
sort out Linux support by the way.  Having read a
couple of very good websites dedicated to digtal
camera and USB connectivity with Linux I am still
somewhat puzzled.  I think the problem stems from the
formatting of the drive.  It is formatted as FAT 32. 
It will not format properly in native camera mode. 
Which reminds me, I must ask the manufacturers about
that.  This at first didn't bother me as I was all
Microsoft at the time and it was/is found ok in Win2k.
 I am going to try reformatting in the meantime as FAT
and see what happens.

I shall report back with my findings :-)

Kevan


	
	
		
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