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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Re: new camera, digikam can't see it

From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@...>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:55:17 -0400
On Friday 26 April 2019 19:01:06 deloptes wrote:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I had forgotten that Canon has corporate sockets only for windows,
> > there are no linux drivers on their site. Linux is a swear word in
> > their boardroom. And only one, I think type C connector, which
> > doesn't charge the battery, you have to take it out and fit it into
> > a pocket on a wall wart to charge and it takes quite a few hours, 8
> > or so to charge if the camera says its on the last dregs.
>
> how many amper do you have on the charger - use recommended for the
> device - should be 1-1.5A
>
No clue, it came with the camera. Cast into the shell, its says 4.2 
volts, 0.41 amps.

> > I can copy the pix from the card, but even their storage crunching
> > still leaves them at 2x the size my nikon makes. �So I can smunch
> > that down to 5% and still show a great image to the net.
>
> Configure the camera to make lower resolution pictures - you will
> reduce the size.
>
> > But I can see where image retrieval is going to be a PITA. Or I take
> > it back, and get something that speaks ptp.
>
> Modern devices use MTP or PTP - install something that handles MTP and
> try again - I use go-mtpfs

Unforch, that will have to wait until I get a fresh install of stretch 
running on this machine since the wheezy repos have all been moved to 
archive. However, locate says the libmtp is part of libreoffice. But 
running the latest 6.2.3, it very well hidden. But its getting late for 
me.

> regards

To you too,>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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