[PLUG-TALK] Question on Using gphoto2

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Jul 9 22:32:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Paul Mullen wrote:

> How old is your camera? Every one I've seen in the last five years or so
> has a USB interface that can operate in "mass storage" mode, so it appears
> as just another file system to your computer. cp and rm are about as easy
> as it gets.

Paul,

   It's vintage mid-1990s. An Olympus D-340L. The only uses I have for it are
images for stuff I sell on craigslist or eBay, project documentation that
might be included in a report, and the occasional snap shots of the dogs
doing canine things (watching a squirrel for hours on end, mouth wresting,
and so on). It's perfect for that.

   The camera has a serial cable. It used to work flawlessly with photopc,
but that just stopped working when I tried it today. The command line
'gphoto2 --camera "Olympus D-340L" --port "/dev/photopc" --get-all-files'
does the job of copying from the camera.

   If I ask 'gphoto2 --list-ports' I see:

Devices found: 6
Path                             Description
--------------------------------------------------------------
ptpip:                           PTP/IP Connection 
serial:/dev/tts/0                Serial Port 0 
serial:/dev/tts/1                Serial Port 1 
serial:/dev/tts/2                Serial Port 2 
serial:/dev/tts/3                Serial Port 3 
usb:                             Universal Serial Bus

   But, when I ask 'gphoto2 --auto-detect' it fails.

   So, communications can be established, but I don't know how to tell it to
delete the files. It throws an error even with the camera model, path, and
camera directory specified.

Rich

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