On Saturday 01 March 2008, David Fox wrote: > On 2/28/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > May be irrelevant, but I just got an FE-340, and gphoto2 (which > > digikam uses to take to the camera) sees it perfectly in MTP (is > > that the same as PTP?) mode. In "storage" mode, gphoto2 thinks it's > > a C-310Z, and can't see that there are pictures. > > mtp is a "microsoft" transport protocol, and is somewhat similar but I > don't believe it to be the same thing as ptp. Oddly enough, a while > back I ran against the same problem with an "el cheapo" keychain type > digital camera (have since gotten a "real" camera, so at this point > it's just curiosity) that would only work with latest & greatest > gphoto2, with some help from the gphoto2 mailing list. > > But I bring it up because the experience clued me in sufficiently to > handle the problem of how I connect to my Iriver T3 mp3 player, which > uses the mtp protocol, 'libmtp' in debian. (Of course, now, the player > is set up to nicely sync with amarok). > > Another point - if the camera isn't supported directly with digikam, > it may be easier to get a cheap USB multicard reader (set me back $5 > at Fry's) and then transfer images via it rather than the camera > itself. I do this for the basic reason that I can do anything with the > card (i.e., use the shell) because it is a mounted device directory. > Of course, this has the potential drawback (hey, it happened to me) > that somehow the write protect tab *broke off* and I had to arrange > for a replacement with Sandisk. But hey, initial problems and > confusion over which proprietary USB cable to use early on > necessitated a repurchase of a USB cable from Kodak. (dang proprietary > USB cables!). So there doesn't seem to be a win either way. > > > Ron Johnson, Jr. > > Jefferson LA USA
I can connect by selecting printer in the camera, and then by Camera-Browse Media in digikam. It's just not as convenient as it would be if it worked directly. ii digikam 2:0.9.3-1 digital photo management application for KDE ii gphoto2 2.4.0-1 The gphoto2 digital camera command-line client C -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
