On Tuesday 24 October 2006 12:19, Robin Laing wrote: >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 wasn't aware of that utility, thanks.. > >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. And you have a pronounced limp from carrying all those AA batteries I assume? >-- >Robin Laing -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
