Quoting Ilya Konstantinov, from the post of Sun, 05 Dec: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 07:39:09AM +0200, Kovriga, Gregory wrote: > > Hi, > > Some bits of info: > > I have A80 (I assume the interface should be the same for A85) - it > > doesn't work directly, you can't mount it. BTW: as far as I know the > > same is with Windows - you need to install a driver to use it.... > > You sure Windows XP doesn't support it out-of-the-box? > There are two common protocols for USB-connected cameras: USB Mass > Storage (behaves like a disk-on-key) and USB Picture Transfer Protocol > (PTP) device.
and there are many uncommon ones. Canon cameras usualy have their own (incompatible one) that requires a separate driver, which comes as TWAIN or WIA (which is the microsoft equivelant of VFS... kinda). you can get gtkam, kamera, gphoto2 and I think dcraw and several other tools to get the data off the camera, but not mount it like a MSD, that's from my experiance with 4 different DSLRs from Canon and Nikon, as well as several "prosumer" cameras. the yet-smaller "digital soap" cameras may appear as MSD sometimes, but it's certainly not the rule. Finally, the PTP mode is for connecting with printers AFAIK, not computers. -- He got game Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
