Nikon Coolpix 2500 & USB

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Over Christmas I had a major breakthru with my Coolpix 990. It is also a USB
device that does NOT provide a 'disk' interface (you cannot mount it). It is
based on the Sierra chipset, as are a number of other cameras. It is
supported by the gphoto2 library, but not by any user-level apps.

Then I came across digikam (http://digikam.sourceforge.net). It actually
works! It requires KDE 3. (An older version supports KDE2, but I have not
tried it).

Of course, if you have KDE3, did you try konqueror with the URL camera:/

If your camera is connected, you will get a menu in the KDE Control Center
that you can configure. Then, the camera:/ URL should work. It also uses the
gphoto2 library. However, it seems much slower at getting thumbnails than
digikam.

The only problem I have had is that the USB devices are created without
read/write access for non-root users. That is more a general USB thing I
need to sort out than anything specific to cameras. Until I sort it out, I
need to change the permissions in the /proc/bus/usb/devices directory.

(All this worked because I installed Gentoo at home. I had previously been
using Caldera 3.1.1, but it was a pain to update on a regular basis -
especially KDE.)

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:00:12 -0500
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> I went out and bought a digital camera, Nikon Coolpix 2500. They didn't
> have a card reader at BestBuy. The camera is designed to hook up to a USB
> port. Does anyone know if there is a linux app that supports this camera?
> 
> Joel
> 
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