I’m having a problem with F-Spot not seeing my Nikon D40. I’m using 11.1
64-bit, and KDE 4.1.
When I plug in the camera (USB), the Device Notifier pops up and says
the camera is connected, correctly identifying it as a D40. digiKam has
no trouble recognising the camera and copying files from it to my
system. However, when I fire up F-Spot (0.5.0.3), although the program
starts normally, the Import Source dropdown shows “No camera detected”.
I would very much like to use F-Spot as this seems closest to Adobe
Lightroom that I’ve used under Windows.
Does anyone have any clue as to why this might not be working? I have
searched, but have found no tips that solve the problem.
It turns out - not that I ever fiddled with it - that the camera was
already set to mass storage. I set it to PTP, and F-Spot picked it up
straight away.
It has been recommended by many people at the Canon SLR forums that it
is much better on the camera to remove the memory card and directly
connect it to a card reader and not use the camera to transfer as to
reduce wear on the camera.
In other words let the camera focus (pun intended) on writing all of
your pics at full speed and let the memory card be the transfer device.
I would think that inserting and removing the memory card would cause
more mechanical wear on the contacts, the door, the spring, etc. of the
memory slot, than the electronic “wear” of uploading pictures from the
camera. Are they suggesting that electrons get old and tired going
through the wire too many times?
