Attaching a camera via USB

[David Suna]

Steve Litt wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Unfortunately I don't have any specs or really know how to read them.  
 From a link someone posted earlier I got the idea to run fdisk -l and 
find out what the device is but there was no difference in the output 
whether I had the camera plugged in or not.


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