Re: [Expert] photo software

[John Clarke]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 08:01, John Layt wrote:
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 09:55, richard wrote:
> > Well, to try and get to the bottom of this I ran gtkam as root, so thats
> > discards permission problems.
> > the hard drive light does flash a few times, but its due to accessing
> > /usr/lib/gphoto for the camera drivers.
> > The Fuji Finepix S5600 is not on the list of available drivers, so it
> > looks like gtkam can see the directory containing
> > the images, but cant get them as no driver is available. That's real
> > daft as if it can see them, it can copy them on to the hard drive.
> >
> > So its gtkam to the wastebin.
> >
> > Richard
>
> My sister has a Fuji too, if I remember right there's a setting in the
> camera menu to set what transfer protocol to use, you need DSC mode and not
> PictBridge mode.  After that it's just another USB Mass Storage device that
> you can mount and unmount like any other drive and copy things around
> yourself.
>
> That said, give the Digikam wizard a try, it really is very nice.
>
> John.
Out of curiosity I just put a smartmedia card with photos on it into the card 
reader on my all-in one printer and duly got the pop up asking me if I wanted  
to import photos from the device into my photo album, said yes. Then used 
find files using parameters "Named *" in /home/john during the last 2 minutes 
and found my photos in /home/john/.thumbnails/normal