Digital Cameras

[Collins]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 08:49:48 -0700 Tom Condon <tomc at eskimo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Perhaps, setup and use sudo for your root requirements.


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