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Re: digital camera reccomendations for debian



On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> begin  christophe barbé  quotation:
> 
> > If gphoto2 'allegedly supports' your Canon PowerShot G2 then it
> > CERTAINLY sypport it and if it is not the case it would be YOUR FAULT if
> > it is wrongly supported because you don't report the failure.
> 
> Thing is, I DON'T CARE if gphoto2 supports it or not, because I found a
> better solution anyway. Using a CF card reader allows me to access my
> pictures without having to turn the camera on, and I can just mount it
> as a filesystem, which is more convenient than having to use a
> specialized utility.
> 

selfish view of contribution.

> I have no idea why I couldn't get gphoto2 to work with my camera.
> Unfortunately, gphoto2 is rather lacking in documentation as far as I
> could tell (I read the man page, looked in /usr/share/doc/gphoto2, and

you read a manpage a few months ago but the manpage was added a few days
ago. You are a bleeding edge user ;-)

> checked the project's web site). Additionally, at the time that I tried
> this, Debian unstable did not have the latest beta, which had been
> released some two months or more previously. But then a friend suggested
> I just use a CF card reader, and that worked well and seemed preferable
> on general principles, so I didn't bother pursuing gphoto2 any further.
> 
> Craig

Christophe

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