I can confirm this bug on the Kodak V603 and F-Spot (the GNOME default thumbnail thingie can import). After doing a bit of research, I was led to a newer version of libgphoto2. By backporting 2.1.99 from Debian Experimental, I resolved this issue.
-- libgphoto2-2: Cannot import photos from Kodak DX6340 camera https://launchpad.net/bugs/12817 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
