Wednesday, December 26, 2007

olympus stylus 790 sw

i got my new olympus camera working with gphoto2 under linux. usb mass storage is easy; just hit 'ok' on 'pc' mode (or right arrow on 'pc', then 'storage'). mount just like any removable storage: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable to download pictures automatically, hit right arrow on 'pc' then 'ok' on 'mtp'. this allows downloads with gphoto2 -P. if it's not in 'mtp' mode (eg, on of the 'print' modes). it will give the error, 'ptp protocol error, data expected'. apparently the version of gphoto2 i have can't handle the print ptp mode, or maybe olympus is doing non-standard things. but mtp is apparently a backwards compatibility mode. it makes the command i used to used with my cannon a10 work great with the new camera. as far as i can tell, all the files the camera produces are available to download. photos are jpegs, movies are avis, and audio captions show up as wavs with the same file number as the corresponding photo. oddly, though, the date is totally screwed up on the wav file. i'm guessing the camera doesn't save the date and time on wavs, so it just gives the max possible date. just need to make sure all files have the number in them, to match up wavs with jpegs.

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