[Digikam-users] Support for Lumix/ Panasonic DMC-TZ5

[Ole Madsen]

The PictBridge/PTP mode you suggested worked like a charm.  Many thanks for your help.
Ole


--- On Mon, 8/4/08, Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl> wrote:

> From: Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Support for  Lumix/ Panasonic DMC-TZ5
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 10:08 AM
> Dnia Monday 04 of August 2008, Ole Madsen napisał:
> > Hi all,
> > Just received my new Panasonic Lumix camera model
> DMC-TZ5 and find to my
> > dismay that Digicam (version 0.9.3) will not talk to
> it.  It identifies
> > the camera as a DMC-FZ20, but that is as far as it
> goes.  I use KDE
> > 3.5.9, that being the latest available for my
> distribution (Mandriva
> > 2008.1). The camera offers two download options, PC
> and PictBridge
> > (PTP).  Neither one works.  What to do? Help please.
> 
> I found digiKam autodetection unreliable. Better set up
> camera by hand
> and later connect using this connection explicitly. So, go
> to digiKam
> settings, create new camera using "USB PTP Class
> Camera", change name to
> TZ5, OK. Turn on camera change connection mode to
> PictBridge/PTP connect
> to computer and from digiKam use Import->Camera->TZ5.
> If this doesn't
> work try USB Mass Storage in computer and PC mode in
> camera.
> 
> m.
> 
>