Re: mounting a Nikon camera
On 27/07/2014, jeremy bentham <dnw@eskimo.com> wrote:
> >From time to time threads appear here describing troubles mounting
> digital cameras. I never paid much attention to them, because I didn't
> have a digital camera and had no intention of acquiring one.
>
> Time makes liars of us all, I guess. I now have a Nikon L30, and I
> can't get my Lenny machine (yeah, yeah, I know....) to mount it.
>
> I also have an ancient McApple, and all I have to to do there is connect
> the camera, and iPhotos opens and gives me access to the SD card.
>
> The machine sees the camera: in /dev, the following appears when I
> connect it (at 2014-07-26 20:16):
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 2014-07-26 20:16 ptmx
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2880 2014-07-26 20:16 char
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 252, 12 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep00
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 252, 11 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep82
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 252, 9 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep01
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 252, 10 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep81
>
> Note, no new block device.
>
> And in /proc/bus/usb, a stanza in devices:
>
> T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 66 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
> D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
> P: Vendor=04b0 ProdID=0357 Rev= 1.00
> S: Manufacturer=NIKON
> S: Product=NIKON DSC COOLPIX L30-PTP
> S: SerialNumber=000030067027
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
> I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
> E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
> E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
> E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=4096ms
>
> Does that "Driver=(none)" mean I'm hosed?
>
> So, the computer knows the camera is connected. It just won't let me
> *do* anything with it.
>
> Whaddo I do?
>
> --
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> dnw@eskimo.com Perl?"
>
>
IHello.
1. I am not a Debian expert, or, a photo software expert, but a user
of limted knowledge.
2. I do not know which is the version number of Debian, that is Lenny.
3. Do you have (if it is available for your version of Debian),
shotwell, installed? A while ago, with one of my digital cameras that
I bought, it used a (then) new format, and what I had been using
before that, did not support the camera type, so, after a bit of
searching, I installed shotwell, and it seems to be okay with each
camera that I have (including the now latest models). I find that I
sometimes get a message ("unable to mount device" kind of thing), but
then I close that error message, and click on the shotwell task that
is loaded when the camera is connected, and, it is all ready to go,
and, import the image files. This is on Debian 6. I do not know
whether shotwell is available for Debian 7. I will find that out, as
time goes on.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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