digital camera

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx.  When I go to
> mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of
> /dev/sda1.
> 
> Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images?  I assume I'll have
> to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or
> how or where to mount it.  Otherwise this should be a piece of cake!

99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems.  Have you tried
gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera?

If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's
storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once.  Then, an appropriate mount command
would be
	
	mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera

Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera.  One of
the more common would be:

	/media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg

That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have.  Usually, there will
be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's
maker.  The "*.jpg" files are the actual images.

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