Downloading from digital camera

[Dapper Dan 0]

My wife's father gave us a Canon PowerShot A85 digital camera for Christmas. On the back of the box it stated you could use it with Windows and Mac.

 

I've never fooled with digital cameras in my life, let alone knew how to download the image files to a computer. I got the batteries and flash reader installed and took some great shots, but was really sweating it out on the drive home whether I would be able to download the pictures to SuSE via the provided USB cable. If I couldn't figure it out then we'd just have to suffer because I will not install Windows just to download pictures.

 

I tried mounting the flash reader and that didn't work. Then I read online about gphoto2. I opened up a terminal, found it's options and did:

 

gphoto2 --get-all-raw-data

 

And all the files downloaded right to my home directory! I thought this was gonna be hard! Check out the cameras gphoto2 supports:

 

Code:

dapper@dan:~> gphoto2 --list-camerasNumber of supported cameras: 450Supported cameras:        "AEG Snap 300"        "Agfa ePhoto 1280"        "Agfa ePhoto 1680"        "Agfa ePhoto 307"        "Agfa ePhoto 780"        "Agfa ePhoto 780C"        "Agfa ePhoto CL18"        "Agfa ePhoto CL20" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Aiptek 1.3 mega PocketCam" (TESTING)        "Aiptek PalmCam Trio"        "Aiptek Pencam" (TESTING)        "Aiptek PenCam Trio"        "Aiptek Pencam without flash" (TESTING)        "Aiptek Smart Megacam" (TESTING)        "Apple QuickTake 200"        "Apple QuickTake 200"        "Argus DC-100"        "Argus DC-1500"        "Argus DC-1510"        "Argus DC-2000"        "Argus DC-2200"        "Barbie"        "Benq DC1300" (TESTING)        "Canon Digital IXUS"        "Canon Digital IXUS 2 (PTP mode)"        "Canon Digital IXUS 300"        "Canon Digital IXUS 330"        "Canon Digital IXUS 400"        "Canon Digital IXUS 400 (PTP mode)"        "Canon Digital IXUS 500 (PTP mode)"        "Canon Digital IXUS i (PTP mode)"        "Canon Digital IXUS II (normal mode)"        "Canon DIGITAL IXUS v"        "Canon Digital IXUS v2"        "Canon Digital IXUS v3 (normal mode)"        "Canon Digital IXUS v3 (PTP mode)"        "Canon Digital unknown 3"        "Canon EOS 10D"        "Canon EOS 300D (normal mode)"        "Canon EOS 300D (PTP mode)"        "Canon EOS D30"        "Canon EOS D60"        "Canon EOS Digital Rebel (normal mode)"        "Canon EOS Digital Rebel (PTP mode)"        "Canon EOS Kiss Digital (normal mode)"        "Canon EOS Kiss Digital (PTP mode)"        "Canon IXY DIGITAL"        "Canon IXY DIGITAL 300"        "Canon MV630i"        "Canon MV650i"        "Canon MVX2i"        "Canon Optura 10"        "Canon Optura 20"        "Canon Optura 200 MC"        "Canon PowerShot A10"        "Canon PowerShot A100"        "Canon PowerShot A20"        "Canon PowerShot A200"        "Canon PowerShot A30"        "Canon PowerShot A300"        "Canon PowerShot A40"        "Canon PowerShot A5"        "Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom"        "Canon PowerShot A50"        "Canon PowerShot A60"        "Canon PowerShot A60 (PTP)"        "Canon PowerShot A70"        "Canon PowerShot A70 (PTP)"        "Canon PowerShot A80 (normal mode)"        "Canon PowerShot A80 (PTP)"        "Canon PowerShot G1"        "Canon PowerShot G2"        "Canon PowerShot G3 (normal mode)"        "Canon PowerShot G3 (PTP mode)"        "Canon PowerShot G5 (normal mode)"        "Canon PowerShot G5 (PTP mode)"        "Canon PowerShot Pro70"        "Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS"        "Canon PowerShot S10"        "Canon PowerShot S100"        "Canon PowerShot S110"        "Canon PowerShot S20"        "Canon PowerShot S200"        "Canon PowerShot S230 (normal mode)"        "Canon PowerShot S230 (PTP mode)"        "Canon PowerShot S30"        "Canon PowerShot S300"        "Canon PowerShot S40"        "Canon PowerShot S400"        "Canon PowerShot S45 (normal mode)"        "Canon PowerShot S45 (PTP mode)"        "Canon PowerShot S50 (normal mode)"        "Canon PowerShot S50 (PTP mode)"        "Canon PowerShot SD100 (normal mode)"        "Canon PowerShot unknown 1"        "Canon PowerShot unknown 2"        "Canon PowerShot unknown 5"        "Canon ZR70MC"        "Casio LV 10" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Casio QV10" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Casio QV100" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Casio QV10A" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Casio QV300" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Casio QV70" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Casio QV700" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Casio QV770" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Che-ez Snap" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Che-ez! Babe"        "Che-ez! SPYZ"        "Chinon ES-1000"        "Concord Eye-Q Easy" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Concord EyeQ 4330" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Concord EyeQMini_1" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Concord EyeQMini_2" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "CoolCam CP086"        "Creative PC-CAM 300" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Creative PC-CAM600" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Creative PC-CAM750" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "D-Link DSC 350+" (TESTING)        "D-Link DSC 350F" (TESTING)        "Digitaldream DIGITAL 2000"        "DigitalDream l'elegante"        "DigitalDream l'elite"        "DigitalDream l'espion"        "DigitalDream l'espion xtra" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "DigitalDream l'esprit"        "DigitalDream la ronde"        "Directory Browse"        "Dynatron Dynacam 800"        "Epson PhotoPC 3000z"        "Epson PhotoPC 500"        "Epson PhotoPC 550"        "Epson PhotoPC 600"        "Epson PhotoPC 650"        "Epson PhotoPC 700"        "Epson PhotoPC 800"        "Epson PhotoPC 850z"        "Fuji Axia Eyeplate" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Fuji Axia Slimshot" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Fuji DS-7"        "Fuji DX-10"        "Fuji DX-5"        "Fuji DX-7"        "Fuji IX-1"        "Fuji MX-1200"        "Fuji MX-1700"        "Fuji MX-2700"        "Fuji MX-2900"        "Fuji MX-500"        "Fuji MX-600"        "Fuji MX-700"        "FujiFilm @xia ix-100"        "Gear to go" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Generic SoundVision Clarity2"        "GrandTek ScopeCam" (TESTING)        "GTW Electronics" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Hawking DC120 Pocketcam"        "Hot Wheels"        "HP PhotoSmart"        "HP PhotoSmart 120 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 318 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 320 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 43x (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 612 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 620 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 715 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 720 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 735 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 812 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 850 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart 935 (PTP mode)"        "HP PhotoSmart C20"        "HP PhotoSmart C200"        "HP PhotoSmart C30"        "HP PhotoSmart C500/618/912"        "IOMagic MagicImage 400"        "IOMagic MagicImage 420"        "Ixla DualCam 640" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Jenoptik JD-3300z3" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Jenoptik JD-4100z3" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Jenoptik JD11"        "Jenoptik JD12 800ff"        "Jenoptik JD350 entrance" (TESTING)        "Jenoptik JD350 video" (TESTING)        "Jenoptik JDC 350" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "KBGear JamCam"        "Kodak CX4200"        "Kodak CX4210"        "Kodak CX4230"        "Kodak CX4300"        "Kodak CX6200"        "Kodak CX6230"        "Kodak CX6330"        "Kodak DC120"        "Kodak DC210" (TESTING)        "Kodak DC220"        "Kodak DC240"        "Kodak DC240 (PTP mode)"        "Kodak DC260"        "Kodak DC265"        "Kodak DC280"        "Kodak DC290"        "Kodak DC3200"        "Kodak DC3400"        "Kodak DC4800"        "Kodak DC5000"        "Kodak DX3215"        "Kodak DX3500"        "Kodak DX3600"        "Kodak DX3700"        "Kodak DX3900"        "Kodak DX4330"        "Kodak DX4530"        "Kodak DX4900"        "Kodak DX6340"        "Kodak DX6440"        "Kodak DX6490"        "Kodak LS420"        "Kodak LS443"        "Kodak LS663"        "Kodak MC3"        "Konica e-mini"        "Konica Q-EZ"        "Konica Q-M100"        "Konica Q-M100V"        "Konica Q-M150" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Konica Q-M200"        "Konica-Minolta DiMAGE A2 (PTP mode)"        "Largan Lmini" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Leica Digilux Zoom"        "Logitech Pocket Digital" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Maginon SX-410z" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Maginon SX330z" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Magpix B350" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Maxell Max Pocket" (TESTING)        "Media-Tech mt-406"        "Medion MD 5319" (TESTING)        "Medion MD 6000" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Medion MD 9700" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Micromaxx Digital Camera"        "Minolta Dimage V"        "Minton S-Cam F5" (TESTING)        "Mitek CD10" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Mitek CD30P" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Mustek gSmart 300" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Mustek gSmart 350" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Mustek gSmart mini" (TESTING)        "Mustek gSmart mini 2" (TESTING)        "Mustek gSmart mini 3" (TESTING)        "Mustek VDC-3500"        "Nick Click"        "Nikon CoolPix 100"        "Nikon Coolpix 2000 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 2100 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 2500 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon CoolPix 300"        "Nikon Coolpix 3100 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 3500 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 3700 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 4300 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon CoolPix 4500 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 5000 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 5400 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon Coolpix 5700 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon CoolPix 600"        "Nikon CoolPix 700"        "Nikon CoolPix 800"        "Nikon CoolPix 880"        "Nikon Coolpix 885 (PTP mode)"        "Nikon CoolPix 900"        "Nikon CoolPix 900S"        "Nikon CoolPix 910"        "Nikon CoolPix 950"        "Nikon CoolPix 950S"        "Nikon CoolPix 990"        "Nikon CoolPix 995"        "Nikon Coolpix SQ (PTP mode)"        "Nikon DSC D100 (PTP mode)"        "nisis Quickpix Qp3" (TESTING)        "Novatech Digital Camera CC30" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Olympus C-1000L"        "Olympus C-1400L"        "Olympus C-1400XL"        "Olympus C-2000Z"        "Olympus C-2020Z"        "Olympus C-2040Z"        "Olympus C-2100UZ"        "Olympus C-2500L"        "Olympus C-3000Z"        "Olympus C-3020Z"        "Olympus C-3030Z"        "Olympus C-3040Z"        "Olympus C-350Z"        "Olympus C-400"        "Olympus C-400L"        "Olympus C-4040Z"        "Olympus C-410"        "Olympus C-410L"        "Olympus C-420"        "Olympus C-420L"        "Olympus C-5050Z"        "Olympus C-700UZ"        "Olympus C-750UZ"        "Olympus C-800"        "Olympus C-800L"        "Olympus C-820"        "Olympus C-820L"        "Olympus C-830L"        "Olympus C-840L"        "Olympus C-860L"        "Olympus C-900 Zoom"        "Olympus C-900L Zoom"        "Olympus D-100Z"        "Olympus D-200L"        "Olympus D-220L"        "Olympus D-300L"        "Olympus D-320L"        "Olympus D-330R"        "Olympus D-340L"        "Olympus D-340R"        "Olympus D-360L"        "Olympus D-400L Zoom"        "Olympus D-450Z"        "Olympus D-460Z"        "Olympus D-500L"        "Olympus D-560Z"        "Olympus D-600L"        "Olympus D-600XL"        "Olympus D-620L"        "Olympus X-250"        "Oregon Scientific DShot II"        "Oregon Scientific DShot III"        "Panasonic Coolshot KXL-600A"        "Panasonic Coolshot KXL-601A"        "Panasonic Coolshot NV-DCF5E"        "Panasonic DC1000"        "Panasonic DC1580"        "Panasonic PV-L691"        "Panasonic PV-L859"        "Pencam TEVION MD 9456"        "Philips ESP2" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Philips ESP50" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Philips ESP60" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Philips ESP70" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Philips ESP80" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Philips ESP80SXG" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Phoebe Smartcam"        "PockCam" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Polaroid 640SE" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Polaroid DC700"        "Polaroid Fun Flash 640" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Polaroid Fun! 320" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Polaroid PDC 2300Z"        "Polaroid PDC 640"        "Praktica QD500"        "Praktica QD800"        "Precision Mini Digital Camera"        "Pretec dc530" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "PureDigital Ritz Disposable" (TESTING)        "Quark Probe 99"        "QuickPix QP1"        "Radioshack Flatfoto" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "RCA CDS1005" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Relisys Dimera 3500"        "Ricoh Caplio 300G" (TESTING)        "Ricoh Caplio G3" (TESTING)        "Ricoh Caplio G4" (TESTING)        "Ricoh Caplio RR30" (TESTING)        "Ricoh RDC-1" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-100G" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-2" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-2E" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-300" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-300Z" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-4200" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-4300" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Ricoh RDC-5000" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Samsung digimax 800k"        "Samsung Kenox SSC-350N"        "Sanyo DSC-X300"        "Sanyo DSC-X350"        "Sanyo VPC-G200"        "Sanyo VPC-G200EX"        "Sanyo VPC-G210"        "Sanyo VPC-G250"        "ScanHex SX-35a" (TESTING)        "ScanHex SX-35b" (TESTING)        "ScanHex SX-35c" (TESTING)        "ScanHex SX-35d" (TESTING)        "Scott APX 30"        "Sierra Imaging SD640"        "SiPix Blink" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "SiPix Blink 2" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "SiPix CAMeleon" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "SiPix SC2100" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "SiPix Snap" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "SiPix Stylecam" (TESTING)        "SiPix Web2" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Skanhex SX-330z" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "SMaL Ultra-Pocket" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "So. Show 301" (TESTING)        "Sony DCR-PC100"        "Sony DSC-F1" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Sony DSC-F55"        "Sony DSC-F707V (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-F828 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P10 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P30 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P31 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P32 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P5 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P50 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P52 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P72 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-P92 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-S75 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-S85 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-T1 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-U20 (PTP mode)"        "Sony DSC-V1 (PTP mode)"        "Sony MSAC-SR1"        "Sony MVC-CD300 (PTP mode)"        "Sony PTP"        "Sony TRV-20E"        "SpyPen Axys"        "SpyPen Cleo"        "SpyPen Luxo"        "SpyPen Memo"        "SpyPen Xion"        "SQ chip camera" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "StarCam CP086"        "STM USB Dual-mode camera"        "STV0680"        "Tiger Fast Flicks"        "Timlex CP075"        "Toshiba PDR-M1"        "Toshiba PDR-M11" (TESTING)        "Traveler SX330z" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Traveler SX410z" (EXPERIMENTAL)        "Trust DC-3500"        "Trust Familycam 300" (TESTING)        "Trust PowerC@m 350FS" (TESTING)        "Trust PowerC@m 350FT" (TESTING)        "Trust Spyc@m 500F FLASH" (TESTING)        "Typhoon StyloCam" (TESTING)        "UMAX AstraPen"        "UMAX AstraPix 320s" (TESTING)        "USB PTP Class Camera" (TESTING)        "WWF"        "Yahoo!Cam" (EXPERIMENTAL)dapper@dan:~>

 

 

[mjwebb007 0]

What the heck is a "Hot Wheels" camera and how can it support that when so many other things are lacking?

[danleff 0]

Gphoto2 supports a wide range of cameras that do not allow direct mounting as a usb device. My Nikon 4300 just needs to be mounted as a usb device. This is the reason why it is not listed. On the other hand, my Kodak needs to use gphoto2 to download and edit photos right of the camera properly.

 

Multi-card readers also generally work. The issue witrh some of them is that Linux, depending on what distro you are using, will want to read only the first slot on the reader. However, with a little work most of the slots will work when a card is inserted in the device on boot.

[iamroot 0]

Do all multi-card readers work? I'm thinking of getting one for my system but not sure if its compatible. Don't wanna spend the money only to discover that it doesn't work with my Linux box.

[egorgry 0]

Nice camera danleff, I have teh same one.

 

Most cardreaders work as a removeble drive.

 

hotwheels camera is supported because some linux hackers son got one and he they wrote driver. actully it probably a logitech cam that's already supported.

[danleff 0]

My elcheapo card reader works. Linux assigns, as egorgry stated, the mount points as a removable drive. I made sue mine had CF first, which are my cards. SD works as well. Assignments when you read dmesg are usually sdb1. sdb2...

 

..and yes, this camera is fantastic!

[Dapper Dan 0]

Did some more research on this and found out SuSE and most of the distros already have a frontend for gphoto2 called Digikam! What a neat program! After configuring it to recognize your camera, it mounts the picture files on the CompactFlash, and you can drag and drop the ones you want to download right into a folder!

 

I'm sure you old hands at this digital photography stuff already knew about Digikam, but since all this is new to me, I thought I'd share it with anyone else who might come along and not know.

[egorgry 0]

Nice to see you're enjoying the camera. It's a nice one too, I got the same one for my parents and it takes great pictures. gphoto is such a great app I use it all the time. The generate web page tool is great.

[danleff 0]

Digikam is a nice frontend. There are others as well. It's nice to find these jewels is it not?

[Dapper Dan 0]

It sure is!

 

Y'all know how it is... You run into a new challenge like this, having been put into the position of finding a Linux alternative to something that is normally done with Windows, and you want and need for there to be an answer.

 

Even though my father-in-law knows we use Linux, (and he doesn't know Linux), he makes the common mistake of telling me how to do it in Windows, saying, " You just open up, "My Computer," and look for "E" or "F" drive...blah...blah...blah..."

 

And the whole time he's telling me, I'm trying to figure out how to get it done from the command line, and having anxiety about it.

 

Then I find gphoto2 and Digikam, and it gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling I felt the first time I had the pleasure of permanently nuking and paving a Windows partition to make more room for Linux...