Reading pictures from HP R707 digital camers

[Steve_160]

Thanks, Nick. It took awhile to try because my daughter was using the camera again.

Unfortunately it still isn't working. I'll try the links.

[Stuart Fuller_2]

Any change in status on this issue?

[Steve_160]

Unfortunately, no. I'm still having to use Windows to read the pictures. Even a memory-card reader didn't help.

I suspect that the card uses the NTS filesystem, which would account for the problem.

[Stuart Browne]

With the camera plugged into the Linux box, and with the automatic modules installed (usb-storage et al), issue the following commands:

file -s /dev/sda
fdisk -l /dev/sda

This will list the filesystem time and a few other bits of interesting information.

The fact that you can 'mount /dev/sda /mnt/something' is a bad indicator, but the two above should help us figure out if we can use a '-t'..

[Steve_160]

Both commands hang forever. I can't even kill the processes.

The camera also hangs. I have to pull the battery to get it to turn off.

[Stuart Browne]

Ok, odd.

Try using 'gphoto' for picture transfer. It doesn't use the memory card as a file-system, but accesses it by camera controls.

According to this list:

http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html

Both 'gphoto' and 'usb-storage' types of transfer should work for that model camera.