Sony digital camera

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bruno Costacurta writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm considering buying a Sony digital camera (precisely a model Cybershot) and 
> would like to receive your experiences or problems, and also useful programs 
> about its connectivity to Fedora via USB.

My two recent Sony consumer-level cameras worked fine, no software required. 
Plug it into a USB slot, and it'll come up as a removable hardware.  Open 
the hard drive up, and open the 'dcim' folder to find your pictures, as 
ordinary .jpg files.

Some notes:

1)  After copying the jpg files off the camera, open them in Gimp then save 
them.  This will reduce the file size by at least half, without any loss in 
picture quality

2)  Do not just unplug the camera.  Right click on the camera's icon and 
select "Eject".  When the icon disappears, then unplug it.

3)  Do not delete image files on the camera using Fedora.  Only use the 
camera itself to delete the image files.  It looks like Sony cameras track 
available free space on memory sticks in a separate file, and if you keep 
deleting the files yourself eventually the camera will think the memory 
stick is full, when it's not.  The only remedy will be to reformat the 
memory stick.


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