Hello Giorgos, On 2008-04-29, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote:
> I have a problem importing the photos from my Canon EOS 400D. It seems > that the OS (debian lenny) does not recognize the camera as a simple > external storage but instead it tries to import the photos via a so > called 'USB imaging interface'. This is at least what konqueror says. > The problem is that photos are coming with a very very very small speed. > Canon cameras do not make themselves accessible as USB-storage; You have to use software which knows their special camera interface to read out the photos, or put the card in a card reader. It is one of the (few) short-comings of their cameras people have been complaining about for years... Also, the transfer speed is quite low compared with taking the card out and using a card reader, even when using the software supplied by Canon on a Mac--I know it from personal experience. You can read about it here, for example: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos400d/page12.asp > On the other side, I plugged the camera into my brother's laptop running > ubuntu, which imported the photos quickly using F-Spot. > F-Spot (and the 'USB imaging interface') must have special support integrated for Canon cameras. Regards, -- Christer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
