USB adapter connecting to digital cameras?

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Wondering for those who have received theirs if they can confirm whether or not the USB adapter successfully allows connection from the 10.1 to a digital camera (for uploading photos).

And by the way mods, this is a specific accessory related question, not a general question, so please do not move.

Originally Posted by joeski27

Wondering for those who have received theirs if they can confirm whether or not the USB adapter successfully allows connection from the 10.1 to a digital camera (for uploading photos).

And by the way mods, this is a specific accessory related question, not a general question, so please do not move.

Should work if the camera supports mass storage. I never use the USB cable from my Pentax K-5 so I can't tell you for sure.

Going to try a card reader tomorrow.

I am having trouble using a Canon DSLR. The camera says that it is busy (indicating that it is connected), but my GT shows no files in the usbStorage folder. USB Drives work well. I have a CF Reader that I could use if needed. The direct connection would be more convenient though.

Originally Posted by dwa012

I am having trouble using a Canon DSLR. The camera says that it is busy (indicating that it is connected), but my GT shows no files in the usbStorage folder. USB Drives work well. I have a CF Reader that I could use if needed. The direct connection would be more convenient though.

Which Canon? I know the 7D does NOT support USB mass storage, it supports some other less-standard protocol. (Might be MTP but not sure). I know that whatever the 7D supports, it won't allow you to download RAW files without a card reader. (At least this was the case on a WinXP machine that I didn't have Administrator rights on.) Epically stupid design IMO, my experiences with a 7D at work have me pretty disappointed with it compared to my Pentaxes.

Since you mention CF I'm guessing it's a 7D.

I am using a 30D. It seems that that model does NOT support USB mass storage mode either.

I have to look for my reader to see it will work.

I guess we will have to wait for a kernel module to implement the communication protocol.

Unfortunately it's hard to find much information at all about Linux support for whatever protocol the Canons use - nearly everyone just uses card readers.

I am running Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop and it will connect to the camera and browse the contents.

I am not sure if that helps any. I am not sure how much work it would be to port those libraries over. I am not even sure what package it is using to create the connection. I can do some more examining to figure out what the module it is using.

EDIT:

It looks like I am using the libgphoto2-2 library to communicate with the camera. It has a few dependencies that may not be possible to port.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/libgphoto2-2