Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-02-03 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Daniel Cliff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > ...I've always been reluctant to mv the > pictures from the camera to a local folder, because I thought that > might mess things up with the camera. I know I may sound naive, but > perhaps there are caveats to take into a

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:46:06AM +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 23:59:44 -0200, Daniel Cliff > (daniel.cliff.em...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC wrote: > > > "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management > > > application. It a

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/02/09 13:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri January 2 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: I created folders, usualy by date, with a description after that.. like 12-24-2008-xmas You're a smart guy, Paul, so I know you'll give a reasoned answer: why do people create subdirs in format MM-DD-, since

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 2 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I created folders, usualy by date, with a description after that.. like > > 12-24-2008-xmas > > You're a smart guy, Paul, so I know you'll give a reasoned answer: > why do people create subdirs in format MM-DD-, since that will > put all of the Marc

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/02/09 04:38, Paul Cartwright wrote: [snip] I created folders, usualy by date, with a description after that.. like 12-24-2008-xmas You're a smart guy, Paul, so I know you'll give a reasoned answer: why do people create subdirs in format MM-DD-, since that will put all of the March

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/02/09 09:24, Daniel Cliff wrote: [snip] Just one last question, Ron: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] $ mv /media/DSC-S730/${mumble}/*jpg /some/target/dir What is ${mumble} supposed to replace? I take it to be a bash variable that contains the name of the dir

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Daniel Cliff wrote: I want to thank all those who replied to this thread. Micha's message was particularly instructive. For the sake of brevity, I'm not quoting his message. Many thanks to Sjoerd too for mentioning renrot, to Bob for mentioning the exiftags package, and to

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Daniel Cliff
I want to thank all those who replied to this thread. Micha's message was particularly instructive. For the sake of brevity, I'm not quoting his message. Many thanks to Sjoerd too for mentioning renrot, to Bob for mentioning the exiftags package, and to Ron, of course, for mentioning jhead. I am gr

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Cliff wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, right?), mv? cut-n-paste? BTW, this is sth I always wanted to know ever since I got

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Ron Johnson: > Daniel Cliff: > > Ron Johnson: > > > Daniel Cliff: > > > > _ rename the files according to some pattern (eg > > > > 20090101_001.jpg, 20090101_002.jpg etc) > > > > > > jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.jpg > > > > I definitely loved this one! > > I make an alias defined in /etc/bash_aliases

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Jesus Arocho
On Thursday 01 January 2009 20:59:44 Daniel Cliff wrote: Digikam will create directories based on the picture dates upon download and you can manipulate the file names during download. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Daniel Cliff wrote: > I just tried it out and it's pretty nice, but I would like something > more specialized to transfer the pictures from the camera to a local > folder. Does anyone know if there is something like that? > Specifically, I would like to: > _ delete the pictur

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 02:27:17 -0200 "Daniel Cliff" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I > >> guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, > >> right?), > > > > mv? cut-n-paste? >

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 23:59:44 -0200, Daniel Cliff (daniel.cliff.em...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC wrote: > > "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management > > application. It allows for importing of your existing > > photo collections, tagging p

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 22:27, Daniel Cliff wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, right?), mv? cut-n-paste? BTW, this is sth I always wanted to kno

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I >> guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, >> right?), > > mv? cut-n-paste? BTW, this is sth I always wanted to know ever since I got my camera: D

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/01/09 19:59, Daniel Cliff wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC >> wrote: >>> >>> "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management >>> application. It allows for importing of your existing >>> photo collections,

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 19:59, Daniel Cliff wrote: On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC wrote: "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management application. It allows for importing of your existing photo collections, tagging photos with identifiers, as well as doing simple edits of photos".

Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC wrote: > "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management > application. It allows for importing of your existing > photo collections, tagging photos with identifiers, > as well as doing simple edits of photos". > > Personally I use it and I'm sa

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Frank McCormick wrote: > Show Details > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...it appears as /dev/sdb1 I use digikam also, with

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 15:52, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] That's what I ended up doing --- and just did a straight copy to a directory in my home. One annoying thing that's going on...each time I connect the camera in one logon session, the kernel bumps up the device..i.e. sdb1/sdc1/sdd1/sde1 and so on

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/01/09 13:39, Frank McCormick wrote: > [snip] >> >> gThumb doesn't recognize the camera...and neither does gtkam. Dunno >> why...it's not like it's a brand new model. > > gphoto2 in Sid is a 15 months behind upstream, but e

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 13:39, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] gThumb doesn't recognize the camera...and neither does gtkam. Dunno why...it's not like it's a brand new model. gphoto2 in Sid is a 15 months behind upstream, but even the latest version doesn't recognize the dsc-s730. However... The came

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:48:17PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to >> decide what software to use under

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Milan SKOCIC
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 13:48 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:48:17PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kerne

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...it app

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730... (Congrats on your new purchase!) > and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. I'm no expert, but if you're looking for an image manipulation soft

Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...it appears as /dev/sdb1 Where should I start ?? Thanks -BEGIN PGP S