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mowestusa | 1 Feb 2007 17:21
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Anyway to get a cheap MiniCam 100k recognized by Digikam

I got as a promo gift a cheap digial camera called a
"MiniCam 100k Digital Camera". It comes with Ulead
software Photo Express to get the pictures off the
camera on a Windows box. It is a USB camera. This
camera does not seem to be listed on the list of
supported cameras in Digikam.

I was just wondering if there would be a way to add it
manually. With the great support digikam offers to so
many cameras I guess I would be suprised if this cheap
little camera can't be supported. However, if it just
uses a propritary format that Linux and Digikam can't
read I guess that would stop it dead in its tracks. I
can see it picked up as a USB device in dmesg.

Just thought I would ask.

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Hubert Figuiere | 1 Feb 2007 18:15
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Re: Anyway to get a cheap MiniCam 100k recognized by Digikam

mowestusa wrote:
> I got as a promo gift a cheap digial camera called a
> "MiniCam 100k Digital Camera". It comes with Ulead
> software Photo Express to get the pictures off the
> camera on a Windows box. It is a USB camera. This
> camera does not seem to be listed on the list of
> supported cameras in Digikam.

Contact the people from gphoto.

http://gphoto.org/

That is what Digikam use.

Hub
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Dik Takken | 3 Feb 2007 17:21
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Re: canon eos20d and unsharp mask

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Andrew Atrens wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm processing raw images captured with my EOS20D ..
>
> Canon puts out a quick reference guide for 'tips and tricks for
> maximum image quality' in which they advise -
>
> "Canon EOS digital cameras have an anti-aliasing filter installed on
> the image sensor.  This filter improves color rendition and
> practically eliminates moire. The liability  is a slight reduction of
> sharpness. To reduce the softening effect of the anti-aliasing filter
> we recommend applying an unsharp mask to the image in Adobe Photoshop.
> Although there is no such thing as a 'best' setting for all
> applications, we suggest the following as a starting point"
>
> Amount: 300%
> Radius: 0.3 pixels
> Threshold: 0 pixels

These settings sound like they would be far too strong for my taste. 
Unsharp masking this strong may greatly amplify sensor noise also...

I would immediately turn off the anti-alias filter, as you can probably do 
things better in software. Also, anything the camera does for you, you 
cannot undo later on.
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Gerhard Kulzer | 3 Feb 2007 19:41

Re: [spam detected by bogofilter] Re: canon eos20d and unsharp mask

Am Saturday 03 February 2007 schrieb Dik Takken:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Andrew Atrens wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm processing raw images captured with my EOS20D ..
> >
> > Canon puts out a quick reference guide for 'tips and tricks for
> > maximum image quality' in which they advise -
> >
> > "Canon EOS digital cameras have an anti-aliasing filter installed on
> > the image sensor.  This filter improves color rendition and
> > practically eliminates moire. The liability  is a slight reduction of
> > sharpness. To reduce the softening effect of the anti-aliasing filter
> > we recommend applying an unsharp mask to the image in Adobe Photoshop.
> > Although there is no such thing as a 'best' setting for all
> > applications, we suggest the following as a starting point"
> >
> > Amount: 300%
> > Radius: 0.3 pixels
> > Threshold: 0 pixels
>
> These settings sound like they would be far too strong for my taste.
> Unsharp masking this strong may greatly amplify sensor noise also...
>
> I would immediately turn off the anti-alias filter, as you can probably do
> things better in software. Also, anything the camera does for you, you
> cannot undo later on.
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Peter N. Spotts | 4 Feb 2007 03:21
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Problems just starting out with Digikam and Rebel 350D

Folks,

I'm using Digikam-0.8.2 on Ubuntu 6.10. And I'm trying to get it to talk
with my holiday acquired Canon 350D. I have the camera set to PTP/Print.
Also, libgphoto2-2.2.1 and gphotofs-0.2-2.

I also had to set up manually a map file and script in /etc/hotplug/usb
for the camera, per some instructions I saw on another list. (Tho as an
experiment, I renamed Canon.usermap to Canon.usermap.old, and Digikam
still recognized the camera, although it couldn't access it.)

So, the good news: Digikam recognizes the camera when I run autodetect.
And I can run the camera in PC or PTP modes and Digikam autodetects
each. But when I click on camera in the toolbar with either entry, I get
an error message saying Digikam can't connect. I've gone back through
the archives at as far as mid '05 and don't find anything that helps.

With best regards,

Pete

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Peter N. Spotts | 4 Feb 2007 03:25
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Re: Problems just starting out with Digikam and Rebel 350D

P.S. I have gphoto-2.2 installed as well...

Pete

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Armond Paiva | 5 Feb 2007 01:23
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image viewing only works as root

digiKam is installed and running mostly great on my gentoo system.
It's pulling images off of a Cannon EOS Rebel Xti without any
problems.

However, it is only display images from an album when running as root
user.  All albums appear empty when non-root.

When importing as non-root a dialog pops up saying:

    "Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher
said: Unknown protocol 'digikamalbums'."

Here are the version numbers and 'use' flag info:

    media-gfx/digikam-0.8.2-r1  USE="arts doc nfs -debug
-kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" LINGUAS="-bg -bn -br -ca -cs -cy -da
-de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hu -is -it -ja -km -lt
-mk -ms -mt -nb -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -rw -sl -sr
-sr <at> Latn -sv -ta -tr -uk -vi -zh_CN" 0 kB

    media-plugins/digikamimageplugins-0.8.2  USE="arts -debug -xinerama"

Thanks in advance, -Armond
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Caulier Gilles | 5 Feb 2007 07:53
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Re: image viewing only works as root

Le lundi 5 février 2007 01:23, Armond Paiva a écrit :
> digiKam is installed and running mostly great on my gentoo system.
> It's pulling images off of a Cannon EOS Rebel Xti without any
> problems.
>
> However, it is only display images from an album when running as root
> user.  All albums appear empty when non-root.
>
> When importing as non-root a dialog pops up saying:
>
>     "Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher
> said: Unknown protocol 'digikamalbums'."
>
> Here are the version numbers and 'use' flag info:
>
>     media-gfx/digikam-0.8.2-r1  USE="arts doc nfs -debug
> -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" LINGUAS="-bg -bn -br -ca -cs -cy -da
> -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hu -is -it -ja -km -lt
> -mk -ms -mt -nb -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -rw -sl -sr
> -sr <at> Latn -sv -ta -tr -uk -vi -zh_CN" 0 kB
>
>     media-plugins/digikamimageplugins-0.8.2  USE="arts -debug -xinerama"
>
> Thanks in advance, -Armond

digiKam use some KIO-slave to run properlly. If you have this message :

"Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher
said: Unknown protocol 'digikamalbums'."
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Fabien | 5 Feb 2007 11:49
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Re: Finding non existing albums

Hello,

yves thomazeau wrote:
> When i start digikam there is a ittle message from the software : 
> finding non existing albums, finding items not in the database or disk .
> What does it means .

DigiKam checks at each startup if the database and albums are in sync, 
ie all albums and files have entries in the database and vice versa.
If new files/albums exist on the filesystem, digiKam will add them in 
the database without prompting you for anything.
In the contrary case, it will tell you that there are entries in the 
database that don't exist anymore on the filesystem and that it can't 
continue without deleting the corresponding entries in the database...

> How can i know which albums,items are designed ?
> How can i solve this ?
There's nothing to solve. It's the correct behavior of digiKam.
You'll get this "scanning message" at each startup.

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