Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:54, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 01:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
A neighbor came up tonight with a canon powershot A10 in hand
I have a Canon Powershot A520 that works in a similar way. On a
friend's WinXP it appears as a drive, but it won't do the same on Linux.
I can use Gthumb to import pictures, that works fine, but it's a bit I
find it awkward to use.
Gthumb doesn't exist on this FC2 system.
I gave in, and bought a SD card reader. While that's not really
practical for getting pictures from a friend's camera, it was a lot
better than messing around with cabling the camera to the PC, and faster
to read files, too. If you have a USB flash drive, it'd probably be
easier to grab the files on your neighbours PC, and copy them there.
That depends. In my case, swapping memory cards can be dangerous because
the credit card thick memory used has open contacts, subject to static
damage, I blew the original card that way I believe. I replaced it with a
64megger, and its only been out of the camera once since. Hooking up the
usb cable automaticly powers down the display too, so I'm not eating
batteries quite as fast. I guess its all in what you feel safe with.
One thing I did find is an old vfat bug thats never been fixed. If there
are 40 or so pix in the camera, you cannot move them to the computer
without losing the last ones as vfat thinks, when the directory sector
contains no files, that it has reached the end of the file list. Not so.
So when moving files to the computer, always start at the bottom of the
list and work backwards else that bug will grow some awesome teeth and
draw blood, requiring the card be formatted to recover.
I have repaired the vfat file system on one of my SD cards to get the
photos off using fsck.vfat. Recovered almost 2Gigs of sports photos.
I normally get a new SD card for my camera (Pentax) and put the stick
into my computer and then format it and put a label on it. Put it into
the camera and go shoot pictures. I don't like using the camera as it
kills the batteries much faster. Also if the camera goes into power
saving mode, I could corrupt the card.
I have three cards for my camera at this time. I have filled up two
cards in a single day of shooting some events, as a hobby.
--
Robin Laing
