Attaching a camera via USB

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 09:59:42 David Suna wrote:
> My son got an inexpensive digital camera and I am trying to plug it in
> to an Ubuntu system to be able to copy off the pictures.  When I plug in
> the camera to the USB a light on the camera flashes but the device is
> not detected as a storage device.  When I run lsusb it sees the device

I think the first step is to see (from specifications or whatever) whether the 
storage on this camera is a filesystem. If not then you have a whole different 
level of trouble.

If it's a filesystem, then keep this in mind -- a lot of cameras require after 
plugging it into the computer you press some kind of button on the camera or 
from the camera perform some kind of menu option, and THEN Ubuntu pops up 
asking whether you want to run a program or just mount it.

SteveT

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