[PLUG] Digital Camera on Linux

David Pool dp at news4neighbors.net
Sun Sep 26 11:21:02 UTC 2004


Ovid wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have a Samsung Digimax 430 digital camera and I want to download the pics from it.  It was no
>problem on Windows, but my Fedora Core 2 system seems to be having problems.
>

Ovid,

Granted my Coolpix 995 is listed as supported on Fedora Core 2 but I 
thought I'd tell you what I've been doing to see if it works for you.
I start with my camera turned off, plug it into the USB and turn it 
on... wait a few seconds then as root run:
# mount /udev/sda1 /mnt/camera/

then move the files to an existing folder with:
# mv -v /mnt/camera/dcim/101nikon/*.jpg /home/david/photos/photos2004/

Then unmount the camera:
# umount /mnt/camera/
Turn off camera and unplug from USB

Then run GQView a great photo viewer that's preloaded on FC 2 (hint you 
can delete a photo with the delete button or edit it with the Gimp by 
right clicking on the photo and selecting "edit ... with the Gimp")
# gqview /home/david/photos/photos2004/

Of course once I got all that working I set it up in my .bashrc file to 
run the lot of em as one command. It's pretty sweet to plug in my 
camera, hit a couple keys and then be going through a slideshow of 
photos editing and deleting them as I go.

The only problem with this script is that the photos end up being owned 
by root, so I've got an additonal step that resets them.

Hope that helps,

David
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