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To: "balug-talk@balug.org" <balug-talk@balug.org> From: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> Subject: [Balug-talk] Penguin lover gets married, mounts pics on his Linux box Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:25:51 -0800 Time to celebrate small things. I got married today at SF City Hall... and mounted my wedding photos on my Linux box! :-) (nope, not on the Web). For other young penguins out there, here's how I did it. I access photos on my Flash Card like this: 1. Create a dir /media/fc (my SuSE 8.1 Linux uses dir /media instead of /mnt): # mkdir /media/fc 2. Mount the Flash Card (connected to my computer via a USB Flash Card reader): # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/fc 3. Change dir into the Flash Card: # cd /media/fc 4. ls and cd till I find the jpg files. My Nikon Coolpix 2000 puts them onto the Flash Card here: <Flash Card>/dcim/100nikon/ So when the Flash Card is mounted per step 2 above, my full path is: /media/fc/dcim/100nikon/imageshere.jpg 5. Copy pics to hard drive. # cp -R /media/fc/dcim/100nikon /home/roger/wedding 6. Unmount and remove Flash Card from computer. # umount /media/fc Now I can unplug USB Flash Card reader and Flash Card from computer. Can anyone suggest a good photo viewer or digital photo album maker for Linux? Perhaps one that works well in tandem with Gimp? p.s. I have not yet tried to connect the Coolpix 2000 directly to the PC. Roger :-) Hardware: 8MB Flash Card SimpleTech FlashLink USB Flash Card reader SuSE 8.1 Linux on a PC. (SuSE's 8.1 distro is Linux kernel 2.4.19) === To: "balug-talk@balug.org" <balug-talk@balug.org> From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> Subject: [Balug-talk] Penguin lover gets married, mounts pics on his Linux box Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:06:54 -0800 Roger Chrisman writes: > 2. Mount the Flash Card (connected to my computer via a USB Flash Card > reader): It should be possible to use automounting to do this. I use a PCMCIA card, so I've got my /etc/pcmcia/ide.opts set up to put my CF cards in the right place when I insert them. I'm not much of a guru on this whole thing, but you could put an entry in your /etc/fstab like: /dev/sda1 /media/fc vfat defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 So you'd only have to type "mount /media/fc". I'm sure someone else can pipe in with how to make it automounting. I've got the "ro" flag in there because you have to remember to "umount /media/fc" before ejecting, and I've missed that step more times than I care to count. It also seems that some cameras have shadow bits of the file system that aren't strictly FAT, so leaving all write ops to the camera seems safer to me. But I'm paranoid that way. > 5. Copy pics to hard drive. > > # cp -R /media/fc/dcim/100nikon /home/roger/wedding Something I've found useful is "jhead", which reads the EXIF data, including the time stamp and exposure info from the JPEG file. I've got a series of Perl scripts that copy the files from my PCMCIA card, make thumbnails, and then insert the EXIF data into my weblog database, but it's not totally automated yet, and I need to build a handier front-end for image manipulation before things get published to the web. > Can anyone suggest a good photo viewer or digital photo album maker > for Linux? Perhaps one that works well in tandem with Gimp? I keep threatening to put something together, but my vision includes mapping and all sorts of other features that always have me abandoning anything shortly after early prototyping. So I depend on my weblog image database to manage such things. Which is fine, and I'd love to have some additional developers to help me polish that into a real package, but it's not anywhere near the "untar this, type 'make' and use it" stage yet. Thanks for noting what you're doing, it keeps me thinking about applications and ways to make Linux better. === To: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> From: Ted Parvu <ted@parvu.net> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Penguin lover gets married, mounts pics on his Linux box Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:43:24 -0800 On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:25:51PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a good photo viewer or digital photo album maker for Linux? > Perhaps one that works well in tandem with Gimp? > I am pretty happy with GQview. http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ This seems to work out pretty well as a photo album. http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/ === To: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> From: Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Penguin lover gets married, mounts pics on his Linux box Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:51:55 -0800 On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:25:51PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: > Can anyone suggest a good photo viewer or digital photo album maker > for Linux? Qiv is very good for browsing a collection of photos and running slideshows; plus there are a wide variety of general image viewers (gqview, kview, imagemagick, xv, etc.). As for photo album software, I haven't personally tried any, but on my debian system, typing 'apt-cache search "photo album"' reveals: bins - Generate static HTML photo albums using XML and EXIF tags. gallery - a web-based photo album written in php libroxen-photoalbum - Photo album module for the Roxen Challenger web server phpix - A PHP-based web photo album album - HTML photo album generator with theme support So, if you're looking for something web-based, it seems that you have several options. === To: balug-talk@balug.org From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Penguin lover gets married, mounts pics on his Linux box Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:27:45 -0800 Quoting Bonny (bonnyfused@tiscali.it): > In data Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:25:51 -0800 > Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> scriveva: > > > [cut] > > > p.s. I have not yet tried to connect the Coolpix 2000 directly to the PC. > mmhh.. does anybody know how to get any USB Digital Camera > connected to Linux and using it as an USB Mass Storage . Device? Generically: http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html > I've tried to do it with my Fuji FinePix S304 (European model name for > the FinePix 3800), but I didn't get it working! Specific to this example: Seems to require a Linux 2.4.20 or later kernel: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1442 I found that link by going to http://www.linux-usb.org/ , picking "Working Devices List", and using the search function. Incidentally, the same trick works with the Coolpix 2000, e.g., http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=Coolpix+2000 It's reported to work just fine with kernel 2.4.19 and later. By the way, if for whatever reason, you can't mount a USB device as a USB Mass Storage Device, I gather that you can usually still get access to its files using the likes of gPhoto2: http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/ Having not had much call to deal with USB devices on Linux before, I recently figured out how to mount an "Easy Disk" USB memory stick: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/easydisk-memorystick === To: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> From: davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton) Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Penguin lover gets married, mounts pics on his Linux box Date: 25 Feb 2003 20:57:58 -0800 Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> writes: > Can anyone suggest a good photo viewer or digital photo album maker > for Linux? Perhaps one that works well in tandem with Gimp? I use HTMLAlbum, available from http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ mostly because... I wrote it! That, and it lets me go back and edit the 'album' (order of the pictures, captions, etc) in an XML file. It could probably use some improvements, but it works for me. === To: Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org> From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Penguin lover gets married, mounts pics on his Linux box Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 08:21:14 -0800 On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:51:55AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > gallery - a web-based photo album written in php rig is nice too, and uses pictures in place, no need to submit them via the HTML interface. http://rig.powerpulsar.net/ ===