Re: Canon Ixus 55 on GNU/Linux?

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

On 2006-04-28, chris roddy <cmr@mdc2.org> 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.

Thanks for all the replies.  I'll try the gphoto2 front-ends next time
he's here.