On 05/19/2014 02:32 AM, Dylan wrote:
On 19/05/14 07:09, Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Sun, 18 May 2014 13:24:23 -0400 Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
* Thomas Taylor <linxt@comcast.net> [05-18-14 13:17]:
Is there a repository for camera drivers? I recently purchased a Nikon S6500 camera and it's driver isn't available in the 13.1 distro DVD.
Camera Drivers ???
Are you wanting to access your camera directly to take pictures, transfer files, ???
Are you wanting to process your camera images with ???
What do you expect to accomplish with a "driver"?
Perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology. I wish to be able to hook a cable from the camera to a USB port to download images and manage the camera's memory. This would eliminate having to remove the mini-SD card from the camera (hard for old fingers), mount it, manipulate image files, unmount the card, and re-insert it into the camera.
It seems this camera uses MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) to communicate with the computer. You will need to use an application capable of this - darktable has already been mentioned, but (IMO) it's badly laid out, un-intuitive and over-specified.
I use digiKam (available as standard to oS 13.1) for downloading and cataloguing photos - it will connect to an MTP camera via the Import menu...
Darktable and DigiKam both use the gphoto2 libraries. Alternatively you can use the FUSE mtpFS. That seems to work elsewhere but the version for openSuse does not have documentation of how to create the required config file. The gphoto2 libraries are interesting in that while they support many cameras they are not explicitly named. The tables would become HUGE if every camera had an explicit individual entry. So there are families there the definitions of similar cameras are consolidated. I got stung by this a while back and asked the developers "why has the entry for my camera been removed?" They explained all this to me. The library still recognises your camera, they said, its just that -- for example -- its a MTP device. We can factor that out. -- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org