[Wylug-help] Mounting a USB digital camera

[Felix Ulrich-Oltean]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:50:23PM +0100, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> > Thanks Dave.
> >
> > I tried digikam (and in fact previously gtkam and gphoto, the GNOME
> > equivalents), but there are no Pentax cameras in the list, and when
> > choosing the "USB Mass Storage" camera option, it found no files in
> > there.  It looks like it just tries to mount that device the same way
> > I was trying from the CLI.
> >
> > Felix.
>
> Filix,
>
> Your story still sounds familiar.  I found that they has stopped
> adding configurations for new cameras.  I spent ages trying to concoct
> a characterisation file for my camera, before reading somewhere that
> modern cameras often use the same generic interface.  Of course, I
> cannot remember what it is called - but it was near the bottom of the
> list.  As soon as I chose that it worked.
>

Found it - USB PTP class camera.  I tried that too, after setting the
camera output to PictBridge/PTP instead of "PC".  Both digikam and
gtkam said "could not initialize camera".

Felix.