Re: mounting a Nikon camera
On 27/07/2014 07:01, jeremy bentham 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?
>
> --
> Dave Williams "Awk!" he sed, bashfully. "Do I *have* to learn
> dnw@eskimo.com Perl?"
>
>
Hi Jeremy,
I have no experience with your model, but the Nikon cameras I know (I
use DSLRs) are accessed though PTP and not via usb as mass storage. I
use Digikam (which uses libgphoto2) to retrieve the images, I know
Gphoto2 and a few other programs can do that to.
With a file manager it is sometimes possible to access the camera via a
special url, like in Gnome Nautilus gphoto2://[usb:id] where [usb:id] is
the numeric usb vendor:device id you get from the "lsusb" command output.
In KDE the Dolphin file manager one can use the special "camera:/"
address to access such cameras.
But in your case the most likely issue is the relative old age of the
system, the vendor:device id of your camera may not be among those in
the known devices list.
Hope it gets you on tracks.
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