gphoto install

[Net Llama!]

Hrmm...unfortunately, i don't know much about that bug.  I have an
Olympus-460, which works flawlessly with photopc (as does the GUI).

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> 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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