* tazmun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010925 07:03]: [snip] > considering purchasing an Olympus digital camera that uses smart media cards > and is apparently designed to be used with USB interface. I'm hoping the > group can save me considerable time and possibly a lot of money by helping > me avoid hardware that is questionable or absolutely doesn't work with Linux > as well as the best software program available. Currently running 2 boxes > one with Mandrake 8.0 and one with Redhat 7.1. As soon as Mandrake releases > 8.1 to the local stores I will own Mandrake 8.1 Powerpack Both have USB > working in Linux for printers at this point. Is the USB interface to > downloading from digital cameras doable or am I better off to stay with the > older serial transfer interface. I'm open to suggestions and am willing to > spend approximately $300. I admit that I have not researched this much yet. > However I am under pressure from my job to get this camera working in the > very near future and don't have allot of time to look everything over as > thoroughly as I would like. Your experiences and thoughts will be > appreciated. gphoto2 is working fine for downloading images via USB from my Olympus 3030Z. It's a little tricky to set up, but once you've got it it works great. It wasn't very clear (to me at least) in the gphoto2 docs that the folder they were talking about was the folder name on the CAMERA. For my camera, this will download all images to the current directory: gphoto2 -f DCIM/100OLYMP -P BTW, gphoto2 recognized and identified the camera just fine. It's just that the documentation is pretty skimpy ... type gphoto2 without any arguments and it will give you a short help summary ... that's most of what you get for help (no man page). -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML
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