Re: video camera for linux

I demand that notbob may or may not have written...

On 2011-01-20, DenverD <spam.trap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
most cameras i've seen have a USB port that once connected to a modern
Linux or Mac system show up as just another storage location..

Canon is notorious for making their interfaces proprietary, despite images
being saved as simple mpeg files. As others have suggested, get a card
reader and eliminate the camera as an interface.

I have a Canon digital camera which doesn't show up as a mass-storage device.
It uses PTP instead, but software such as Shotwell works fine with that.

As is normal with these things, the card is formatted for FAT.

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