For a geek, I have surprising little experience with digital cameras. I had bought Erika a Canon Poweshot A620 for her birthday, and needed to borrow it to take pictures of my ailing house to show potential fixers of those ailments.
I know when I was running gentoo I was able, after some tweaking, to get pics from the camera using gphoto2. However, on Ubuntu gphoto2 wasn’t seeing it. Then I remembered that my laptop has some crazy 12 in 1 card reader that I have never used. I popped in the SD Card, and bang, there it was mounted. I did a little drag and drop and the pics were saved.
Neato. I need to get my own camera one of these days.
Hrm… On my Ubuntu laptop (with Gnome, et al) when I put in an SD card
with pictures, a dialog pops up saying “Hey, bub, you’ve got some
pictures here. Do you want to import them?”
And, of course, I say yes, and F-Spot
imports them.
(Btw, I recommend F-spot. Tagging, a nice timeline view, some color
balancing, etc.)
Yeah this did that as well. I just didn’t do that.