Digital Cameras

[Tom Condon]

On Saturday 08 June 2002 23:20, Ken Moffat carved in granite:
> I see some newer cameras that use autoconnect USB connection, like
> some new Olympus and Kodak 3600 cameras. Gphoto uses a USB
> Mass-storage driver for these, but states they don't support
> downloads. Anyone have any experience with these USB cameras? (or usb
> in general on linux?) (i'm using redhat 7.3 and Caldera 3.1.1 right
> now)
> Thanks.

I believe gphoto2 lists these cameras (at least the Kodak 3500-3900 & 
MC3) are listed as "Experimental".  The olympus cameras are not so 
listed.  See:
	http://www.gphoto.org/cameras.html

I just bought the Kodak DX-3500, but not the docking station (which is 
the one using their "Easy Connection" software.  The camera comes with 
an USB port (as well as the EasyDock connector), so I just plugged that 
in.

I'm running SuSE 8.0, and it automatically detected the USB device 
(there is a GUI USB Viewer that shows it connecting and disconnecting 
as the camer is turned on and off).

Gphoto2 works great with only one exception -- only root has permissions 
for the USB port, for some reason (see the "gphoto2 & USB access" 
thread).  I haven't found a work around for that, yet.  I've built a 
script to handle downloading, changing owner/group/permissions and 
moving into another directory, though.  Now if I can figure out how to 
make that script executable by *anyone* while running with root 
permissions I'm set.  Of course, I'd prefer to change the access on the 
USB port.

However, the quick answer (now that I've given you the long one) is that 
you can use gphoto2 with the USB port on at least one of these cameras.
 

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