Hmmm... It's working great for me (which I do think is bizarre, since it also depends on libgphoto, just like F-Spot.) I'm attaching some of the properties items from synaptic, so that you can compare and see what may or may not be installed or missing on your machine.
** Attachment added: "synaptic screenshot" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28530260/camera.app-synaptic-dependencies.png -- Error initializing camera: -60: Could not lock the device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs