Extract photo from digital camera that is not USB mass storage device

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:27:38 +0100, David Demelier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've bought a new digital camera Canon IXUS 220, it works well (but 
> nothing to do with FreeBSD). But I've been very sad when I saw that I 
> can't set it to mass storage device
> 
> The device can only be used as PTP device I guess, that's why I don't 
> have any da* device when I connect it.
> 
> ugen7.2: <Canon Inc.> at usbus7
> 
> What can I do to copy photo without extracting the SD card each time, 
> does gphoto (or something similar) support this kind of generic device?

If the camera supports PTP, use a gphoto2 (CLI program)
or a GUI tool that uses it (e. g. Gtkam for Gnome,
Digikam for KDE).

You'll find them in the ports collection.

Also check the menu of the camera if it can be switched
between PTP mode and DA mode. I have a Canon S3 IS myself
and it can do both modes, but I prefer extracting the
memory card and using it with the internal reader of the
computer instead of messing with the USB cable. :-)

In the past, I had a camera that worked very well with
gphoto2. It did identify to the system as ugen (USB
generic), no further messages appeared.

See "man gphoto2" on how to scan for devices and how to
copy (and maybe delete) pictures from the camera. You
can also automate this process (using devd) or use a
GUI solution for it. I've been using Gtkam in the past
for the task of selectively dealing with pictures.


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