usb & Sakar digital camera 75379

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sat, 1/10/09, Patrick Newberry <PNewberry at habitat.org> wrote:

> From: Patrick Newberry <PNewberry at habitat.org>
> Subject: usb & Sakar digital camera 75379
> To: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 8:23 AM
> I have this cheap not worth much dollar store type  digital
> camera a Sakar 75379
> 
> So until I get some more cash together to get a real
> digital camera, I figure I'd have some fun with it and
> just play around.
> 
> It came with a cd that had something called photo tag
> express on it and I can extract photo from it (it lists the
> camera as dual mode on the camera select list) on a windows
> machine.
> 
> I then installed gtkam on my Ubuntu machine and on its
> camera selection list it shows a Sakar 77379 (and maybe a
> couple of others but that is the closest in name).  However
> it does not seem to be able to inititilize the camera (that
> is the message: cannot initialize camera).
> 
> The number of course does not match: that is the list shows
>  77379 rather than the actual camera 75379.
> 
> Also   gtkam shows three items in a list for USB:  that is
> Universal bus (USB: )
> Universal bus (USB: 004, 004)
> Universal bus(USB: 002, 005)
> 
> I have no idea what the difference is, but I tried all
> three.
> 
> So not that this is very important, but it would be nice to
> know if it's possible to pull photos from this dollar
> store camera.
> 
> Any ideas?  Also can somebody explain the difference in the
> USB's listed above.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Pat
> www.gypsyfarm.com<http://www.gypsyfarm.com>
> 
> 
> Lo bueno de esto es lo malo que se esta poniendo.
> 
> 
> 
Have you considered digikam, a kde program but works in
gnome. I think it offers more camera support but doesn't
have your exact camera model listed either.  I does have
Sakar Kidz Cam model and four other models.  It also
has a manual camera setup in which you may have success
with your camera.  Worth a try anyway. Not sure at all
what your usb entries mean unless it the port designations
for your 3 ports.  Do you have three usb ports? On my
machines the usb ports are usually listed as #1, 2, 3 and
so on. I used digikam since day one for a digital camera
and never had a problem with it but my Sony model was
listed.  It'll only take a little of your time to check
it out.  HTH 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net