Olympus C4040 USB Camera Howto

Herman, Dec 2001
System: Mandrake 8.1
http://www.AerospaceSoftware.com

General

The Olympus C4040 Camera supports the USB Mass Storage profile. This is the best kind of USB support and allows you to mount the camera like a disk drive and access it as if it is a permanent part of the Linux file system. If you intend to buy a camera, insist on this feature.

First of all, plug the camera in, remove the lens cap and turn it on.

Driver

Make sure that the mass storage module is installed:

#lsmod

will tell you. Look for usb-storage. If it is not listed, install it:

#modprobe usb-storage

Then modify your /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/cam vfat user,noauto 0 0

Note that on Mandrake 8.1, Automount doesn't work. This has been fixed in version 8.2.

Mount Point

Make a mount point:

#mkdir /mnt/cam

Mount it:

#mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cam

View Your Photos

Now you can view it:

$cd /mnt/cam/dcim/100olymp

$ls -al

You should now be able to edit, copy, move and delete anything on the camera, as if it is a normal part of your system.

Edit Photos

Use The Gimp to edit photos. It works great and can do anything, but you may have to read the help a bit to get going

I normally save the photos on my hard disk, then open a subdirectory, where I save smaller and possibly cropped versions of the photos.

With The Gimp, most things are done by Right Clicking on the image, to get a menu.

Have fun!

Herman