Simon,
> the most reliable way with nikon is to access as a simple USB storage device. Drag and drop.
After f-spot crashes, it is not visible anywhere. It would be nice if nautilus would show it as an ordinary disk drive like my external USB hard drive. I turn on the power and it magically appears in the tree column.
I can find it in the "KDE Contol Module" in applications -> other -> usb_devices. It shows the actual serial number of the camera as well as a dozen other tidbits, but there are no action buttons.
I right click on the D700 icon and get a "What's This?" popup.
I have to open my windows laptop, plug the camera in there, and use my Samba mount to dump it to ubuntu.
Am I the only ubuntu user with a digital camera?
BrianP