Ira Abramov wrote:
and there are many uncommon ones. Canon cameras usualy have their own
(incompatible one) that requires a separate driver,
Ouch, still? I remember it was the case for Canon PowerShot S40...
GPhoto supported its proprietary protocol, though.
or WIA (which is the microsoft equivelant of VFS... kinda). you can get
gtkam, kamera, gphoto2
It should be noted that Kamera (KDE's plugin which allows accessing the
camera right from the file browser), Digikam, GThumb and Gtkam all use
the GPhoto2 library to work with cameras, so they all support the same
cameras. No need to try the other if one didn't work.
(The surest test is, of course, to use the command-line "gphoto" utility.)
Finally, the PTP mode is for connecting with printers AFAIK, not
computers.
Maybe printers dig it too, but Windows ME and XP surely do:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/stillimage/stillimg-connect.mspx#EFAA
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