On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:45, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Bruno Costacurta writes: > > Hello, > > > > I'm considering buying a Sony digital camera (precisely a model > > Cybershot) and would like to receive your experiences or problems, and > > also useful programs about its connectivity to Fedora via USB. > > My two recent Sony consumer-level cameras worked fine, no software > required. Plug it into a USB slot, and it'll come up as a removable > hardware. Open the hard drive up, and open the 'dcim' folder to find your > pictures, as ordinary .jpg files. > > Some notes: > > 1) After copying the jpg files off the camera, open them in Gimp then save > them. This will reduce the file size by at least half, without any loss in > picture quality > > 2) Do not just unplug the camera. Right click on the camera's icon and > select "Eject". When the icon disappears, then unplug it. > > 3) Do not delete image files on the camera using Fedora. Only use the > camera itself to delete the image files. It looks like Sony cameras track > available free space on memory sticks in a separate file, and if you keep > deleting the files yourself eventually the camera will think the memory > stick is full, when it's not. The only remedy will be to reformat the > memory stick. Hello, as I just bougth my Sony camera following your advices, this email to confirm the easy connection of the camera (model Cybershot) via USB : once PTP protocol is selected everything runs smoothly under KDE application called digikam. Thanks to persons who replied to this thread message. Bye, Bruno
