Yes that is how I use my digital camera, it behaves like a usb thumb
drive would.  You would not need to go buy a special drive. 

The two cameras I have tried have been an Olympus and a Nikon.  This
should work for you. 




Jim



On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 11:52, Michael Havens wrote:
> This means I could just use the camera as a USB drive (reader/writer)! I don't 
> have to go by a special drive.
> Right?
> 
> On Friday 02 January 2004 10:45 am, Jim said:
> ~ When you plug in the digital camera under linux tail /var/log/messages
> ~ "tail -f /var/log/messages" and see what device the camera is now listed
> ~ as eg sda1 then cd to sda1 and you can copy files from the camera as if
> ~ it was any other piece of removable media.
> ~
> ~ You could use the article below  about usb thumb drives as a reference
> ~ since once you plug the camera into the usb port it should behave just
> ~ like a usb thumb drive would.
> ~
> ~
> ~
> ~ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6867
> ~
> ~
> ~ Jim
> ~
> ~
> ~
> ~ On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 17:51, Michael Havens wrote:
> ~ > Well, I got a digital camera for Christmas (Kodak CX6330). As gtkam does
>  not ~ > support this model as of yet I am again using the M$98 side of my
>  system. ~ > This means that I have to copy the files I download to the linux
>  side of my ~ > box; but when I try to it tells me that the file that I have
>  dragged to the ~ > Linux Desktop does not exist.
> ~ >                          ????????? WHAT ???????
> ~ > What am I doing wrong?  I tried chmod 776 hda1 but the permissions
>  wouldn't ~ > change.... on second thought it is a good thing the permissions
>  wouldn't ~ > change because if you write to a windows partition from Linux
>  it becomes ~ > unusable to M$ products. (unless one of you knows how to get
>  around that) ~ >
> ~ > Well I did it! I am not sure how I did it but it is done. After all of
>  the ~ > pics were in Linux chmod worked without a problem. Actually I moved
>  ~ > everything via the command line.
> ~ >
> ~ > I'll do a google tomorrow when I have internet access concerning the
>  driver ~ > for the camera..... unless one of you knows something of off the
>  top of your ~ > head.
> ~ >
> ~ > Is there a way to change the permissions on hda1 that will not adversly
>  affect ~ > the system? That way I can drag and click and not have to do
>  things from the ~ > command line.
> ~
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