digital camera
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Jul 20 17:13:41 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> 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.
Uh, hmmm. Well, as root, create the file "/usr/bin/mntcam". In it, put
these lines:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $0 = "mntcam" ]; then
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics
echo "Camera mounted at /mnt/pics"
else
umount /mnt/pics
echo "It is now safe to unplug the camera"
fi
Save it. Then (still as root), enter these two commands:
# chmod 755 /usr/bin/mntcam
# ln -s /usr/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam
You now have two commands "mntcam" to mount it, and "umntcam" to unmount
it.
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