-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/08 11:34, Christer Oldhoff wrote: > 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.
I'm going to be that it uses the ITP protocol, which gphoto2 supports perfectly well. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIF1AKS9HxQb37XmcRAselAKCp94TW4SlLbIiR7mYOYzggUvW6GgCgzRlJ WIoVVqmJC+zVSwzrjf/LJJI= =t6M4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
