* Gerry Lawrence <gwlp...@gmail.com> [2008-02-26 16:00]: > Abigail wrote: >> You can't simply mount its storage as a (usb) disc, but >> luckely, gphoto2 can connect to the camera and extract the >> images. > > Whoa! Are you sure? All cannon's for the past decade or so > can mount as a USB disk.
The Sony DSC-W55 I just got goes into "auto" mode when you hook it up to USB, and then usb-storage does not see it nor can gphoto talk to it. But that's the factory setting; I can manually select "Mass Storage" or "PTP" from a menu on the cam, and then it will go into that respective mode. Now, when the camera is connected to a USB bus, it shows a blank screen except for prominently showing me which mode it's in and hinting that there is a menu you can bring up. Since I didn’t expect to have to choose USB protocol at all, it took me a while to realise that this hint was actually prompting me to look. But only after I wasted a freaking hour googling about any possible Linux compatibility issues. Why the hell do I have to bring up the menu with a button when the camera does not offer any other function? Totally pointless! Just show the menu right away for crying out loud. (I have to say though, that was just a one-shot hate and so far I don’t hate anything else about it. All in all it Just Worked, and once I figured out the USB protocol setting menu, it mounted as a storage device without any further ado. I threw gphoto away again. Less software == less hate.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
