> Cheap USB memory card readers are well recognized as a mass storage > device and probably should be > the last resort for the most stubborn digital cameras.
agreed. > Personally, I use Sony Cybershot DSC-W70. Unfortunately the camera can > not be mounted directly as a file system. > As with quite a few Sony cameras the trick is to put the camera > into PTP mode. Once in > PTP mode camera memory can be accessed by gphoto2 command line and > library of drivers program. I believe that fancy GUI applications > as gtkam and digkam are using the same library of drivers. Other people > on the list probably correct me if I am wrong. I dunno what luck you've had, but I always ran into problems when trying to transfer movies (and I think larger photos). but as you pointed out.. cheap flash readers work to resolve this. regards, ~Jason