digital camera
Fred Grant
fdgrant at powercom.net
Thu Jul 20 13:37:49 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to
> > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of
> > /dev/sda1.
> >
> > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have
> > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or
> > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake!
>
> 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried
> gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera?
>
> If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's
> storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command
> would be
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera
>
> Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of
> the more common would be:
>
> /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg
>
> That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will
> be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's
> maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images.
>
Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to
automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I
don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as
needed.
--
Fred
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