[KimDaBa] Import from camera

[William Holland]

On Friday 29 October 2004 23:51, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    From: Shawn Willden <shawn-kimdaba at willden.org>
>    Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:32:29 -0600
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>    On Friday 29 October 2004 05:48 am, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    > 1) I'm assuming that something recognizes the "usbcam" and matches it
>    > against the device.  I prefer to use a card reader because it's a lot
>    > faster than hooking my camera up (the card reader is USB 2.0, whereas
>    > my camera is 1.1).
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>    I can see where that would be an issue when you're downloading RAW 6.3MP
>    images with embedded large/superfine JPEGs!
>
> Actually, I store a small/coarse JPEG with the RAW file.  No need for
> both a decent quality JPEG and a RAW.
>
>    > 2) I have multiple cameras (my wife's and mine) and want to import
>    > them into different directories.  Any tips for distinguishing between
>    > two cameras?
>    >
>    >    - ----------cut here---------------
>    >    GROUP=camera
>    >    if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ]
>    >    then
>    >        chmod o-rwx "${DEVICE}"
>    >        chgrp "${GROUP}" "${DEVICE}"
>    >        chmod g+rw "${DEVICE}"
>    >        sudo -u shawn /home/shawn/bin/got_camera.sh
>    >    fi
>    >    - ---------cut here----------------
>
>    It should be easy to do.  Basically, you need to have the script
>    figure out the model of the camera.  I can think of three ways:
>
> I'd like to try to figure it out using a card reader rather than the
> camera, if that's possible.
Is the directory structure the same for both camera's?  Is there a prefix for 
the files on one or other camera?

I have three cameras - a fuji, a casio and a minolta, and they all have 
different prefixes for the files they store.  it should be possible to 
process that info when copying the files.

Alternatively use jhead (I think - might be 'exif') to process the exif info 
(is there any in RAW files), and grab the camera ID from that.

Just a couple of ideas.

Will
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