Kodak Easyshare camera. Can it be mounted?

[omcaree]

Hey there,

 

I've just got myself a new camera (Kodak EasyShare Z740) and to my surprise (and delight) it works fine with linux (Mandriva 2005LE). Plug it in (USB) and up pops flphoto and using "USB PTP class camera" I can retrieve all my photos. However, firstly I can not get hold of videos which I have taken on the camera (in an unknown format, but I'd like to see if they will play in Mandriva). And secondly, I find it more convenient to deal with external devices (such as MP3 players, mobile phones, and cameras) as storage devices.

 

I've had a quick look into gphoto2 which i believe is the heart of flphoto (and similar programs) and this does offer command line directory style browsing but it is somewhat cumbersome.

 

Ideally I'd like to be able to browse my camera using konqueror (and upload/download pictures/files to and from it as I wish), or if required use a gphoto2 frontend which looks the same.

 

As I said, for its main use the camera is working perfectly with Mandriva, but the windows software for kodak cameras does allow you to treat them as a sort of USB hard drive which would be ideal.

 

I've stayed windows free for months now, and I dont intend to go back just for camera functionality, but any solution would be welcomed.

 

Many thanks in advance,

 

Owen Mc

[devries]

Konqueror can do that. In the adressbar type: media:/ and click on camera. Or, click on 'go' in the mainbar, 'storage', 'camera'. Or hit F9, services tab, storage, camera :)

 

All this with the camera plugged in ofcourse.

[omcaree]

cheers for the reply, thought it'd be something simple. however what you suggested doesn't work.

 

typing "media:/" just brings up google (seaching for "media:/") and neither F9>Services and Go have a "Storage" option.

 

Is there something I need to install for konqueror to do this? or does my camera not support it?

 

Cheers again

 

Owen Mc

 

PS. Camera is plugged in (and working as usual in flphoto)

[devries]

Perhaps a screenshot makes things more clear (translated from Dutch so actual wording can be a bit different):

 

[omcaree]

What you suggested was never unclear, it just doesn't work.

 

Here is a screenshot of mine to demonstrate what i mean. it shows F9 > Services and the result of typing "media:/camera" in the address bar.

 

Sorry for being a pain, but thanks for the help so far.

 

Owen Mc

[scarecrow]

Checkout if the HAL and message bus (dbus) daemons are running.

Edited August 30, 2005 by scarecrow

[omcaree]

both HAL and messagebus daemons are running and I have no reason to suspect they are faulty.

[devries]

Look under 'devices' :)

 

You can always manually mount the camera (well the storage card). When you plug in a /dev/sdxy (where x is the drive letter and y is the partition number). Make a camera folder in your /home/<yor name> folder. Open a console and type: mount /dev/sdxy /home/<your name>/camera. With konqueror browse that folder.

[omcaree]

under devices I have hdc and hdd (DVD drives) and a floppy drive.

 

under /dev i only have sda, sda1, sda2, sda5, sdb and sdb1. and these drives (sda and sdb) corrispond to my 2 SATA drives.

 

looking at Harddrake I see the following with reference to my camera (under "Unknown/Others")

 

Identification
Vendor: ‎Eastman Kodak Company

Description: ‎KODAK EasyShare Z740 Zoom Digital Camera

Media class: ‎Imaging|Still Image Capture|Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)

Connection
Bus: ‎USB

Bus PCI #: ‎1

PCI device #: ‎39

Vendor ID: ‎1034

Device ID: ‎1416

Misc
Module: ‎usbfs

[devries]

Try changing the communication protocol on the camera (from ptp to usb mass storage or the other way round) (I'm using ptp).

[omcaree]

I'm using ptp at the moment, how would I go about changing this?

[theYinYeti]

A digital camera can usually only be mounted as usb mass storage.

However for those cameras without support for USB mass storage, there is still a solution: look there for gphoto2:

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/filesystems.html

 

Yves.

[omcaree]

Thanks for the link, as of yet I cant get it to work (problems during the final "make") but i'll work on it. However, I understand this only gives read-only access to the camera. using windows I can get read/write access, so this must be possible somehow? and it is ideally what I am looking for.

 

if mounting PTP isn't possible then so be it, I'll live without it. but if anyone out there knows how to mount it with read/write permissions then your help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks for the posts so far

 

Owen Mc

[scarecrow]

Most modern cameras support both the PTP and usb-storage protocol, but I think your camera is not one of them. And yes, you can live with the PTP protocol and something like Digikam if usb-storage is not an option...

[omcaree]

A strange twist has occured. I installed various camera related things (kde-graphics and kamera) and now typing "camera://" into konqueror brings up a folder called "USB PTP Class Camera" and clicking on this takes me to the camera (pretty much as seen using gphoto2 at the terminal). However, browsing this is incredibly slow and more often than not I reviece "Could not read file /store_00010001" errors. gphoto2 then refuses to work (after recieving errors in konqueror) and i have to reset the camera and try again.

 

All still works fine using gphoto2 (flphoto, digikam etc..) but konqeuror tries and fails. Any ideas? or should I just stick with gphoto2?

 

Thanks again

 

Owen Mc