trouble mounting USB digital camera

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:25:17PM +0300, Vladimir Kushnir wrote:
> Hi Anton.
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to mount USB digital camera
> > to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64).
> >
> > I get to
> >
> > 	ugen1.2: <Eastman Kodak Company> at usbus1
> >
> > in dmesg, but no block device appears,
> > so I'm not sure how to mount this device.
> >
> > Does the procedure for mounding USB camera
> > devices differ from that form USB flash drives?
> >
> 
> Yes it looks like your camera uses PTP protocol (precisely like mine 
> Kodak C340 does). In this case you don't mount it at all and use 
> graphics/libgphoto2 based photo transfer/management programs instead (they 
> are: console graphics/gphoto2, KDE3 based graphics/digikam, KDE4 
> graphics/digikam-kde4, GTK+ graphics/gtkam, MONO graphics/f-spot and so on 
> - make your choice)

many thanks, graphics/gphoto2 worked well, I got my pictures.

thank you for your help

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