[Digikam-users] Canon Rebel xt 350D

[John Manfredi]

 By experimental do you mean that I could fry my
camera? Or sometimes it works and sometimes it don't?


--- Thorsten Schnebeck <thorsten.schnebeck at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Am Montag 02 Januar 2006 16:10 schrieb John
> Manfredi:
> > I did not realize how quickly I would get a
> response.
> >     My camera list includes
> >             "Canon Digital Rebel (Normal mode)"
> and
> >             "Canon Digital Rebel (PTP Mode) ".
> >
> >     It does not include  "Canon EOS 350D". I
> thought
> > that
> >  "Canon Digital Rebel" = "Canon 350 D", since the
> > later is not included in my camera list.
> >       I have tried  both "normal" and "PTP" mode's
> > with my Canon 350D with the camera's
> communications
> > set to "PC connection" and "Print/ PTP"
> respectively.
> > In both cases I receive the message " Failed to
> > connect to the camera. Please make sure its
> connected
> > properly and turned on. Would you like to try
> again?"
> >        I have my camera mode dial set to the
> manual
> > setting(the green box).
> > When my camera is set to PTP the LCD panel reads
> Busy,
> > however when I'm set to PC connection the camera
> > behaves as if it is not connected at all and I am
> able
> > to sift through my images on the LCD display as
> > normal.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> some infos:
> normal mode support for 350D/Rebel and 20D is
> experimental. You 
> have to switch it on during compile time. For
> non-newbies this 
> goes like this:
> 
> cvs
>
-d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gphoto
> login 
> [RETURN]
> cvs -z3
>
-d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gphoto
> 
> co -P libgphoto2 
> 
> cd libgphoto2/ 
> ./autogen.sh 
> ./configure CFLAGS=-DCANON_EXPERIMENTAL_20D
> --prefix=/usr 
> --sysconfdir=/etc
> make && make install
> 
> You can reset the busy flag using libptp2
>
http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libptp/libptp2-1.1.0.tar.gz
> 
> this way:
> 
> ptpcam -r 
> 
> The permant busy-flag is a bug in Canons ptp
> protocoll handler.
> 
> HTH
> 
>   Thorsten
> 
> 
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