Cybershot DSC-F1 and Linux
After having issues with my DSC-F1 digital camera, which uses a serial cable for transfer, and Windows, I decided to try my luck with Linux. I was beginning to think my camera was a goner since it stopped working under Windows, but much to my surprise, I located a small program called stillgrab. Stillgrab is a very simple command line application for grabbing photos from the DSC-F1 in PMP format and dumping them onto the hard drive in JPG format. Once I figured out which COM port my digicam was on, the program was off and running. It pulled 9 photos from the camera before failing. While searching for some answers, I ran across another application called chotplay, a japanese photo retrieval program. I haven’t tried this program yet, but I’ll be looking into it today.
On another note, tired of dealing with the serial connection, I decided to order a USB-to-Serial cable to see how well the camera will behave going through the different BUS. Of course, this is all assuming that the issue is more a communication problem through the COM port and not a problem with the camera. I’ll post more detail later.
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