digital camera Q

[Robin Laing]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:54, Tim wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 01:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>A neighbor came up tonight with a canon powershot A10 in hand
>>
>>I have a Canon Powershot A520 that works in a similar way.  On a
>>friend's WinXP it appears as a drive, but it won't do the same on Linux.
>>I can use Gthumb to import pictures, that works fine, but it's a bit I
>>find it awkward to use.
>>
> 
> Gthumb doesn't exist on this FC2 system.
> 
> 
>>I gave in, and bought a SD card reader.  While that's not really
>>practical for getting pictures from a friend's camera, it was a lot
>>better than messing around with cabling the camera to the PC, and faster
>>to read files, too.  If you have a USB flash drive, it'd probably be
>>easier to grab the files on your neighbours PC, and copy them there.
> 
> 
> That depends.  In my case, swapping memory cards can be dangerous because 
> the credit card thick memory used has open contacts, subject to static 
> damage, I blew the original card that way I believe.  I replaced it with a 
> 64megger, and its only been out of the camera once since.  Hooking up the 
> usb cable automaticly powers down the display too, so I'm not eating 
> batteries quite as fast.  I guess its all in what you feel safe with.
> 
> One thing I did find is an old vfat bug thats never been fixed.  If there 
> are 40 or so pix in the camera, you cannot move them to the computer 
> without losing the last ones as vfat thinks, when the directory sector 
> contains no files, that it has reached the end of the file list.  Not so.  
> So when moving files to the computer, always start at the bottom of the 
> list and work backwards else that bug will grow some awesome teeth and 
> draw blood, requiring the card be formatted to recover.
> 

I have repaired the vfat file system on one of my SD cards to get the 
photos off using fsck.vfat.  Recovered almost 2Gigs of sports photos.

I normally get a new SD card for my camera (Pentax) and put the stick 
into my computer and then format it and put a label on it.  Put it into 
the camera and go shoot pictures.  I don't like using the camera as it 
kills the batteries much faster.  Also if the camera goes into power 
saving mode, I could corrupt the card.

I have three cards for my camera at this time.  I have filled up two 
cards in a single day of shooting some events, as a hobby.

-- 
Robin Laing