Hi,
I have an Epsom PhotoPC 850z digital camera, which is apparently compatible with gphoto2. The gphoto2 app can detect the camera, and correctly tell me how many photos are on its flash card (37).
Unfortunately when I use gphoto2 to get all the files, it starts off ok, quite quickly, then slows down on the 3rd photo, then fails on the fourth photo, with an error message. On every occasion, the thing fails on the 4th photo. Can anyone suggest a way to resolve this, or do I need to buy a Linux-mountable memory card reader?
Thanks!
Jim

Try mounting the camera as a usb mass storeage device, and change directory to it.
My camera (Nikon Coolpix 2000) is not compatible with GPhoto, so I mount it manually, and copy the jpg files manually. See http://users.indigo.net.au/ballfamily/linux.html for instructions on how I do this.

Thanks for your advice! I've hit a snag, but this may be a good clue as to the cause of my woes. I've a USB card, with the camera plugged in, just as described in my original post. I followed your instructions at your site, these are my outputs to the commands.

# lsmod |grep -i usb
usb-ohci 19720 0 (unused)
usbcore 63116 1 [usb-ohci ehci-hcd]

# lsmod |grep -i scsi
ide-scsi 10384 0

as you can see from the above, there is no scsi_mod - Linux hasn't sensed the camera.

#dmesg
[last two lines are:]
hub.c: new USB device 01:07.0-2, assigned address 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x402) is not claimed by any active driver.

Typical! It is difficult to understand how to solve the errors This is as far as I've got so far. Any ideas?