[KLUG Members] Error Using Digital Camera

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 08:22 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > > Did you try mounting the USB device manually?
> > > It seems like I had to do that once.
> > > "fdisk -l" usually shows what device it's assigned.
> > It doesn't seem to show up as a mass storage device,  it is something
> > called a PTP device (I have no idea what that means technically).  But I
> > did manage to download the images;  f-spot wouldn't work,  but I
> > installed gtkam (the gphoto2 front-end) and ran that manually.  At first
> > it didn't work, I got a "PTP protocol error, expecting data".  Then I
> > tried again and entered a filename prefix in the same/import dialog...
> > and it worked!  So I'm suspecting it is actually an application bug and
> > has nothing to do with the camera.  It would be nice if the f-spot thing
> > worked as it pops up automatically,  but maybe I can figure out how to
> > make that thing go now that I've gotten gtkam to work.  I though it was
> > odd that I could view thumbnails/previews, camera information, etc...
> > but not download the images.
> Just curious, but how old of a camera is this?  

I think the model has been around for at least a couple of  months.  It
is one of those 5.1 megapixel ones with a jillion modes and options no
one ever uses.

> Not how long you've owned it, 

Eight days.

> but is this old technology before they started using the USB
> mass storage stuff?  

No,  my impression with reading lots of camera reviews is that USB mass
storage is now on the way out.  All the cameras sport SD card slots and
the SD card itself can be used as mass storage device in a media reader;
but that is another contraption to tote around if the laptop doesn't
have a built in SD reader.

> I hope so, because I'd hate to think they are
> switching to some other protocol in new cameras now!

I think so.  Or at least they aren't emphasizing the mass-storage
support anymore.  But I'm far from an expert on the topic,  my wife just
wants to take pictures and have it all "just work".
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