unable to mount digital camera

jarednielsen · 08-30-2012, 01:58 PM

Hi all,
Noob here.
I'm trying to mount my camera to my laptop. When I plug the camera in via USB then turn it on, I get the following error:

Code:

Unable to mount Canon Digital Camera. Error initializing camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device

I don't know what to do. I know I could use a cardreader,(which I do), but I want to tether my camera to shoot stopmotion with Entangle.

I'm running Mint 13 on an HP Elitebook 8560p 64bit.

I've been searching for hours and haven't found a working solution. Also, most of the posts are several years old now.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

/dev/random · 08-30-2012, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jarednielsen

Hi all,
Noob here.
I'm trying to mount my camera to my laptop. When I plug the camera in via USB then turn it on, I get the following error:

Code:

Unable to mount Canon Digital Camera. Error initializing camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device

I don't know what to do. I know I could use a cardreader,(which I do), but I want to tether my camera to shoot stopmotion with Entangle.

I'm running Mint 13 on an HP Elitebook 8560p 64bit.

I've been searching for hours and haven't found a working solution. Also, most of the posts are several years old now.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi jarednielsen,
Can you please run this command for me and report the output of it:

Code:

uname -a

jarednielsen · 08-30-2012, 02:26 PM

Linux touringMachine 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

michaelk · 08-30-2012, 02:31 PM

What is the model number of your camera.

Most Cannon cameras support the PTP protocol and not mass storage so can not be mounted. However, it is also possible that the camera uses a proprietary protocol. Entangle is built with libgphoto which is in a nutshell the API for PTP. So basically there really isn't anything to do.

Have you tried running Entangle yet?

frieza · 08-30-2012, 02:47 PM

define 'mount', most cameras can't be used teathered, at least without proprietary software provided from the manufacturer, which is often windows or (sometimes) mac only, if you want to 'mount' the camera as a filesystem, you could look into fuse gphotofs http://gphoto.org/proj/gphotofs/ which allows you to mount a PTP camera as if it were a mass storage device.

/dev/random · 08-30-2012, 03:19 PM

Guy's it looks like this camera or type of camera has had issues in the past.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ry/010323.html

I think what the OP is asking is he want's to mount the SDcard in the camera connecting the camera directly should cause the usb_storage driver to see it as a "Mass Storage Device" type of device and allow the card to be mounted within the camera. OP is this what you are after?

frankbell · 08-30-2012, 09:46 PM

My camera is PTP and will not mount as a mass storage device, just as michaelk said.

I use gtkam with it. Works very nicely.

frieza · 08-30-2012, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

My camera is PTP and will not mount as a mass storage device, just as michaelk said.

I use gtkam with it. Works very nicely.

shotwell also works, so does gimp, have you tried FUSE gphotofs? http://gphoto.org/proj/gphotofs/ that can emulate a mass storage device with PTP cameras

m.a.l.'s pa · 09-02-2012, 12:13 PM

Instead of mounting my digital cameras, I prefer to take the memory card out and plug it into a card reader. If the computer doesn't have a built-in card reader, USB memory card readers can be had for less than $10 bucks around here, and are quite convenient. Works just like plugging in a flash drive.

frankbell · 09-02-2012, 09:11 PM

I prefer not to take the memory card out, because that requires opening the battery compartment on my camera and, if it's open to long, my settings, including time and date, can get lost.

It takes less than a minute to reenter them. But that's just me; I'm lazy that way.