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Old 10th September 2010
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Originally Posted by tetrodozombie View Post
i used gphoto2 and it is sooooooo easy
It does the job, and I imagine it's better than using the vendor-supplied software on Windows, if that's even an option. A couple things I don't like about gphoto2 are:

1) If you don't use the --shell mode, then it initializes the camera before each command. This can take a long time, like a minute or more, and you have to do it at least twice, once to get a listing of files and then to download your range of new ones.

2) If you do use the --shell mode, the initialization only happens once, but the shell is fairly primitive so you can't download files by range or pattern. So it only seems good for getting a very small number of files. (Maybe there's a newer version where this has been improved?)
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