[Digikam-users] Canon S2

[Peter Lord]

Renchi Raju wrote, On 09/15/2005 08:04 AM:

>Peter Lord wrote:
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>>Peter Lord wrote:
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>>>Hi All,
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>>>I've just upgraded from a Canon S10 to an S2is.... nice camera :-). 
>>>I've found it works well with digikam 0.7.3 (the lastest for gentoo
>>>distro). 
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>>>I have notice, though, that the image download doesn't spot new images
>>>and that the auto download directory seems to be Jan 1970... I'm using
>>>gphoto2 2.1.6 BTW.
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>>Ah ... I had digikam running with an older gphoto2 lib and then
>>upgraded.  I had to remove the camera from digikam and allowing it to
>>auto detect.  Now the camera is showing up as an S2 and, secondly, the
>>dowload to a sensible directory appears to be well :-)
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>>However, digikam still doesn't seem to spot new images.
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>>I'm wondering if this is to do with the fact that I have lots of old
>>photos from my old camera, and I have duplicate filenames between the
>>two cameras ...
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>>Does digikam detect new pictures by filename ?
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>is libgphoto2 compiled with libexif support? the newer camera models 
>(including s2) use the ptp2 driver, if i remember correctly and these
>need to have libexif support to correctly provide a 
>downloaded/not-downloaded status (which decides whether a file is new or 
>not) and also the file date.
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Thanks for the reply - yes, libphoto is using exif .. for example, I see 
the images get rotated as they come in.

I have libexif 0.5.12-r1 ( the -r1 is a gentoo thing I think )

Pete