[NCLUG] Digital Photo Mgmt

[Dan Fink]

I just bought the new Sony Cybershot DSC-U30 camera - tiny little thing 
about 1/2 the size of a deck of cards, uses Sony memory sticks for 
storage. When I saw your posting on NCLUG today I hooked it up to my 
Linux box via the USB port--would not work. A quick Google on it said I 
had only to switch the camera to USB PTP mode....and indeed it worked 
just great with the gtkam package that's included with KRUD Linux. It's 
related somehow to the gPhoto package....and it picked up the right 
driver on it's own. I was impressed, anyway -- not so long ago that USB 
and Linux were not at all plug-n-play. I was impressed that KRUD picked 
up and configured my external USB soundcard (Extigy) automatically also.
Cheers
DANF


Rich Young wrote:
> I had 2 vastly different photo management needs arise in one day
> recently.  First, my 5-year-old got a cheap digital camera, and I was
> looking for some way to set him up on our linux box with automatic
> filing and easy viewing of his pictures.  Obviously, I'll have to
> address the driver issues & such first.
> 
> Then, at work, we were looking at a couple products for organization and
> searchability, and I was thinking that it would be nice if it would
> interface with our linux web server as well.  
> 
> So, does anyone have any favorite open-source tools that do these jobs
> well?  
> 
> --Rich