Re: Canon Ixus 55 on GNU/Linux?
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2006-04-28, Dmitri Minaev <minaev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Recent Canons usually use a special protocol, called PTP (picture
>>> transfer protocol) to communicate with a computer. AFAIK, this is also
>>> true for Ixus 55. Install gphoto2 to download pictures from your
>>> camera.
>> Interesting. Does gphoto2 not mount the camera on the filesystem?
> It does not.
> On my Canon A410:
>
> /home/hugoFri Apr 28-09:02:08HDA7# gphoto2 --auto-detect
> Model Port
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> USB PTP Class Camera usb:
> USB PTP Class Camera usb:001,005
>
> and gphoto2 -P uploads the jpegs and avi's.
FWIW, the gphoto project also offers a tool called gphotofs, which aims
to allow any camera supported by libgphoto2 to be mounted into the
filesystem using FUSE (I have not been able to use it personally with my
Canon A610).
gtkam and gthumb both provide graphic front-ends to gphoto2.
cmr
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