Import Photo Problems in Warty.

[Brian Durant]

 --- Stephen Ryan <taketwoaspirin at gmail.com> skrev: 
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:07:57 +0000, Norman
> Silverstone
> <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:56 +0100, Brian Durant
> wrote:
> > >  --- Tubuntu <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> skrev:
> > > >
> > > > I have Exact same problem with Olympus C-750.
> > > >
> > > > Ubuntu automounts camera and you can view/copy
> files
> > > > from there but
> > > > "auto import photos" option isn't working..
> > > >
> > > > Same problem was also with mandrake 9.2 and
> Suse 9.0
> > >
> > > Exactly. Good to hear I am not the only one 8-)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Brian
> > 
> > I have exactly the same with Olympus Camedia C50
> zoom.
> > 
> > Norman
> 
> http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html
> suggests that
> Olympus cameras made in the past few years are
> generic USB storage
> devices; what this means is that the camera should
> be recognized as
> just another removable disk drive, and that
> gphoto2-based methods for
> importing pictures aren't going to work (see
>
http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/FAQ.html#FAQ-camera-support
> for the
> explanation).  What you want is pimp, from Oliver
> Grawert
> (http://www.grawert.net/software/pimp/), which
> imports pictures from
> that type of camera.

I just installed pimp. I get prompted twice if I want
to import pictures, but except for that the program
works great. Actually, I am very happy to find out
that Olympus camers don't really need the gphoto
method to import pics, as it does show up as a USB
drive, which is the most open (source??) way of
dealing with this issue. Newbies like myself can get
confused however when both happen at once.

Cheers,

Brian