{"id":73,"date":"2009-04-27T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/Ubuntu-Diary-Day-3"},"modified":"2020-08-15T23:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:03:12","slug":"ubuntu-diary-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/ubuntu-diary-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameras and Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI plugged my camera into a spare USB port, and waited. It just works&#8230; Ubuntu recognised the attached storage and prompted me for an application. I chose F-Spot Photo Manager because it seemed like the right thing to do, and successfully copied the images to the filesystem. That is a complete success, in my book, except for the following issues:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#39;d created a folder ~\/pictures\/camera but for some reason I could not copy the images from the camera to that location. I ended up putting them in ~\/pictures instead, and then moving them manually later.<\/li>\n<li>By default Ubuntu apparently created a directory called ~\/Photos for me but I swear I don&#39;t remember seeing it before. Did F-Spot do this, or am I just blind? [Update: The directory was created last night, so I expect F-Spot did it, or perhaps Ubuntu did after it recognised the camera.] <\/li>\n<li>I couldn&#39;t figure out how to move the images from the camera (thus relieving me of the need to delete them from the camera in a separate operation). \n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The camera is a FujiFilm FinePix 602z. The laptop is a Sony Vaio FE790G.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I plugged my camera into a spare USB port, and waited. It just works&#8230; Ubuntu recognised the attached storage and prompted me for an application. I chose F-Spot Photo Manager because it seemed like the right thing to do, and successfully copied the images to the filesystem. That is a complete success, in my book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}