gphoto install

[Roger Oberholtzer]

This was the thing I used before. I see on the hardware page they say
'with some glitches' after the 990. Same as before. Still, I will
try again and see if it is better.

One of the glitches was that it deleted all the images from the camera
for no obvious reason. Of course, my testing was with a set of junk images.


On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:35:22 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> I'm fairly certain that photopc (and my GUI for it, tygemo, see sig below)
> supports the Nikon camera.
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:03:54 -0400
> > Matthew Carpenter <matt at e-i-s.cc> wrote:
> >
> > > I have little USB camera experience, but when setting up my dad's
> > > MDC8000 for him, it was as simple as plugging it in and telling gphoto
> > > what and where is was (/dev/usb/mdc8000), which was exactly like what
> > > I did for the serial-connection.
> >
> > I wish that were the case here. The Nikon 990 (and a bunch of other
> > cameras based on the same chipset) use a protocol not supported in
> > gphoto/gphoto2. At least last time I checked. One needed to use a
> > user-land lib to manipulate the USB, and then play the protocol over
> > this interface.
> >
> >
> 
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