Re: [PLUG] Camera software

[Dan Crosta <dcrosta@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

I haven't played around with this at all, but my card reader (SanDisk  
SDDR-92) has a button on it that you might be able to get to, and use  
that to trigger similar file dumping... as I said, I have no idea how  
one might do that, I've never tried (ahh, the "joys" of Mac OS X)

dsc

On Jun 20, 2006, at 1:01 PM, <edward.pike@thomson.com>  
<edward.pike@thomson.com> wrote:

> for more ease when I plug the cards
> I scan the usb devices with "lsscsi", parse
> that, automatically mount them, and slurp the files with
> some perl program..all activated by a serial button
> (parsled).  can be done headless.
>
> ep
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org on behalf of Dan Widyono
> Sent: Tue 6/20/2006 12:59 PM
> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> Cc: Daniel Widyono
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Camera software
>
> I'll second Dan's suggestion (USB card reader).  No need to use up  
> camera
> batteries, I don't have to find that special cable to hook up my Canon
> PowerShot A510 to the USB port, and sometimes gphoto2 locks up my  
> camera if I
> type the wrong commands in.
>
> With the USB card reader, it's just another dumb USB external  
> drive, and I
> use rsync to pull the latest and greatest photos into my local  
> storage area.
> OK, maybe just latest.
>
> Dan W.
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:20:23PM -0400, Dan Crosta wrote:
> > I'd also recommend a cheap (~ $10) memory card reader + usb- 
> > storage. I
> > have several cameras which all use compact flash, so it made sense  
> > for
> > me, and with ubuntu it just shows up on your desktop when you pop  
> > a card in.
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