[wellylug] Fujifilm Camera and Ubuntu

[Arands - Wellington]

Thanks Timothy.  I fixed the sudo issue by adjusting the "user" option
in /etc/fstab to "users", and have no problems now.  I'll check-out PTP
if I have further problems.  Cheers.  Joseph

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 17:44 +1200, Timothy Goddard wrote:

> See whether you can use PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) with your camera. It 
> should allow it as it supports Pictbridge, which uses PTP as the image 
> transfer protocol.
> 
> I don't know about the GNOME equivalents but I use digiKam with PTP with my 
> camera. Root permissions shouldn't be required to use a USB device in this 
> way unless your security settings are utterly paranoid.
> 
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 00:13, Arands - Wellington wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Thanks for the replies.   I also thought that Ubuntu would automatically
> > import photos from a modern camera (and, yes, an upgrade is hopefully in
> > the pipeline).  I have just managed to mount the camera as a device, and
> > so now know that photos can be retrieved from the camera.  There is a
> > wee problem that I have to unmount the device as sudo, rather than as
> > any old user via the graphical interface - but will try to resolve that
> > one tomorrow.  Cheers.
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 22:17 +0100, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:24:34AM +1200, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> > > > Arands - Wellington wrote:
> > > > > Can anyone provide newbie advice about how to import photos from a
> > > > > Fujifilm FinePix S5600 camera into gThumb Image Viewer under Ubuntu
> > > > > 5.04
> > >
> > > Your camera should just appear as a USB drive, and you can copy the
> > > files from there. gThumb tries very hard to be smart about importing
> > > from cameras that do not work as generic USB drives (i.e. older
> > > cameras); that function isn't needed for your camera.
> > >
> > > > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to plug the camera into the USB port,
> > > > > Ubuntu to detect it, and then open gThumb automatically so I can
> > > > > import photos.
> > >
> > > If your camera isn't automatically mounting, then you need to look
> > > outside gThumb for the problem. As Jonathan says, an upgrade might be
> > > required, but I'm pretty sure its supposed to work with your current
> > > version.
> > >
> > > -jim
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