Re: gtkam and powershot a70
On 14 Feb 2005, Laura Melton wrote:
> On 12 Feb 2005, Anthony Simonelli shared a puddle of experience:
>
> >I own a Canon PowerShot A70 digital camera and I am running Debian
> >Testing (official snapshot 01/01/05). I installed the gtkam and gphoto2
> >packages and the various dependencies. When I connect my digital camera
> >to the computer via USB and switch on the camera with gtkam running, a
> >message is displayed stating the following:
> >
> >"There are photographs on this device
> >Would you like to import them into your photo album?"
> >
> >By clicking "Import" the next dialog box has the type of camera on the
> >left and options for importing the photos on the right. It is at this
> >point the program says that there is no camera detected. How can this
> >be when turning on the camera prompted me if I wanted to import photos
> >from the device? There is the option to specify the device and I
> >selected Canon PowerShot A70 and USB but it says that the device is not
> >connected. Telling the program to re-scan for devices results in no
> >device found.
> >
> >How is it that it found the camera initially and then it doesn't
> >recognize it a all when trying to import or view the photos on the camera?
>
>
> Have you read the gphoto2 manual (http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/),
> especially section 4: "Setting up your system for use with libgphoto2
> and gphoto2"? (http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions.html)
> That section should provide the information you need to get your camera
> set up.
>
> Also, I find that gtkam works better when I connect and switch on my
> camera before I start gtkam. (I have a Powershot A80.)
>
> Good luck,
>
> Laura
> --
I find that digikam works better, or at least is easier to use, with my
Powershot A40.
Anthony
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