digital camera

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 22:14 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> Nice script Rick. One other suggestion I would make is create a bin 
> directory in your home directory, then put scripts you write there. Then 
> the link command would be:
> 
> ln -s /home/yourname/bin/mntcam /usr/bin
> &
> ln -s /home/yourname/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam
> 
> This gives you the option of just backing up your home bin dir for moving 
> and modifying your scripts.
> 
> One nice tool for writing scripts is vim, or you can venture into 
> KDevelop, which also does syntax hilighting.

Vim does syntax highlighting.  The trick is that you generally have both
vi and vim (/bin/vi and /usr/bin/vim).  If you put this in your /.bashrc
script:

	if [ -d /usr/bin ]; then
	    alias vi="vim"
	fi

then you will invoke vim instead of vi complete with syntax highlights.

> My 2 bits.
> 
> Karl (from a hotel room in Idaho the night before a funeral on my wife's 
> side of the family).

Sorry to hear that, Karl.

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