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any one mount a digital camera on OpenBSD and download images from it yet?
I've got a USB Nikon Coolpix digital camera. When i try and mount the usb flash the usual way it doesn't work. Is there something missing?
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There are plenty of people who use their digital cameras with OpenBSD, some work better than others.. some don't work at all.
Posting the attach messages and explaining in more detail the "usual" way you used to mount the device, perhaps we might be able to assist. |
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My Coolpix sports a SDHC card which I simply take out & mount as an MS-DOS filesystem either by inserting into a built-in MMC reader or through an external MMC reader attachable through USB. I assume the cable which can be attached directly to the camera will do something similar, but I don't know because I don't use that cable. |
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I try not making assumptions about the working status of all devices, but I know for a fact that not all cameras work on OpenBSD.
There are some cheaper cameras that lack support for USB mass storage mode, there are some that aren't quite USB compliant and fail to attach at all, even as ugen(4), and while rare.. some exist that aren't supported by libusb+libgphoto(1/2). It's safe to say that many devices will indeed work, and as you outlined, are easily accessible.. but it's always possible that you'll run into a device that doesn't work properly with OpenBSD. All USB disk enclosures should theoretically work on OpenBSD as well, but, I've came across a few that are a little flaky and problematic. |
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As of the rest of your comment it is absolutely true but my understanding of the original question was if you can get somehow a digital camera to work with OpenBSD. I still claim that I can get it to work but the solution might not be as pretty as the original poster was seeking. For all I know the guy might have complained that a POP-up window didn't show up when he plugged his camera into OpenBSD asking him if he wants to download the picture. I could probably manage even something close to that with most but not all camera as you suggested. |
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I think there might by some confusion generated by the choice of wording in some of the above posts.
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Last December I shopped for a cheap (<$100) digital camera, and in this price range at least, my impression was that the trend was very much toward PTP. I wanted one that could be mounted as USB mass storage, of course, which really narrowed down the possibilities. In the end, I made a bit of a mistake: sorting through so many features I lost track of the mass storage feature and didn't confirm it in the camera I ended up buying (Fujifilm). It turned out the camera was PTP-only (can't be switched to mass storage). So I have to live with gphoto2.
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thank you. thank you. thank you everybody for your help. i'm using OpenBSD as my only OS these days. i love it so much. i can't believe using a computer could ever be this much fun or perfect.
@id0p -- i used gphoto2 and it is sooooooo easy. thank you. |
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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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gphoto2 --help |
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gphoto2 2.4.3 gcc, popt(m), exif, no cdk, aa, jpeg, readline libgphoto2 2.4.3 gcc, ltdl, EXIF libgphoto2_port 0.8.0 gcc, ltdl, USB, serial without locking But your point is that I should look for and upgrade to a newer version. I will try to do that, and thank you for the suggestion that it should work better once I do. |
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gphoto2: {/usr/local/src/tmp} /store_00010001/DCIM/101_FUJI> ls ...<snip>... DSCF1617.JPG DSCF1618.JPG DSCF1619.JPG DSCF1620.JPG DSCF1621.JPG DSCF1622.JPG DSCF1623.JPG DSCF1624.JPG DSCF1625.JPG DSCF1626.JPG DSCF1627.JPG DSCF1628.JPG DSCF1629.JPG DSCF1630.JPG DSCF1631.JPG DSCF1632.JPG DSCF1633.JPG DSCF1634.JPG DSCF1635.JPG DSCF1636.JPG DSCF1637.JPG DSCF1638.JPG DSCF1639.JPG DSCF1640.JPG DSCF1641.JPG DSCF1642.JPG DSCF1643.JPG DSCF1644.JPG DSCF1645.JPG DSCF1646.JPG DSCF1647.JPG DSCF1648.JPG DSCF1649.JPG DSCF1650.JPG DSCF1651.JPG DSCF1652.JPG DSCF1653.JPG DSCF1654.JPG DSCF1655.JPG DSCF1657.JPG DSCF1658.JPG DSCF1659.JPG DSCF1660.JPG DSCF1661.JPG DSCF1662.JPG DSCF1663.JPG DSCF1664.JPG DSCF1665.JPG DSCF1666.JPG DSCF1667.JPG DSCF1668.JPG DSCF1669.JPG DSCF1670.JPG gphoto2: {/usr/local/src/tmp} /store_00010001/DCIM/101_FUJI> get DSCF1624.JPG Downloading 'DSCF1624.JPG' from folder '/store_00010001/DCIM/101_FUJI'... Saving file as DSCF1624.JPG gphoto2: {/usr/local/src/tmp} /store_00010001/DCIM/101_FUJI> get DSCF162?.JPG *** Error (-108: 'File not found') *** Moreover the man-page and in-shell help use the singular form when describing the get command: Quote:
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Last edited by IdOp; 11th September 2010 at 11:18 PM. Reason: typo |
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as a show of thanks, i'm uploading pics of the my own artwork i'm scanning in.
these sketches are free for anyone to use. you can color them in using gimp or inkscape and use them for yourself. thanks everybody.
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I keep it simple and just do: gphoto2 --get-all-files
and I use the camera to delete the files and decide which ones i keep. it's quick, efficient, and I know I haven't left any files behind. |
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