digital camera Q
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Oct 24 16:19:53 UTC 2006
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:54, Tim wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 01:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>A neighbor came up tonight with a canon powershot A10 in hand
>>
>>I have a Canon Powershot A520 that works in a similar way. On a
>>friend's WinXP it appears as a drive, but it won't do the same on Linux.
>>I can use Gthumb to import pictures, that works fine, but it's a bit I
>>find it awkward to use.
>>
>
> Gthumb doesn't exist on this FC2 system.
>
>
>>I gave in, and bought a SD card reader. While that's not really
>>practical for getting pictures from a friend's camera, it was a lot
>>better than messing around with cabling the camera to the PC, and faster
>>to read files, too. If you have a USB flash drive, it'd probably be
>>easier to grab the files on your neighbours PC, and copy them there.
>
>
> That depends. In my case, swapping memory cards can be dangerous because
> the credit card thick memory used has open contacts, subject to static
> damage, I blew the original card that way I believe. I replaced it with a
> 64megger, and its only been out of the camera once since. Hooking up the
> usb cable automaticly powers down the display too, so I'm not eating
> batteries quite as fast. I guess its all in what you feel safe with.
>
> One thing I did find is an old vfat bug thats never been fixed. If there
> are 40 or so pix in the camera, you cannot move them to the computer
> without losing the last ones as vfat thinks, when the directory sector
> contains no files, that it has reached the end of the file list. Not so.
> So when moving files to the computer, always start at the bottom of the
> list and work backwards else that bug will grow some awesome teeth and
> draw blood, requiring the card be formatted to recover.
>
I have repaired the vfat file system on one of my SD cards to get the
photos off using fsck.vfat. Recovered almost 2Gigs of sports photos.
I normally get a new SD card for my camera (Pentax) and put the stick
into my computer and then format it and put a label on it. Put it into
the camera and go shoot pictures. I don't like using the camera as it
kills the batteries much faster. Also if the camera goes into power
saving mode, I could corrupt the card.
I have three cards for my camera at this time. I have filled up two
cards in a single day of shooting some events, as a hobby.
--
Robin Laing
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