Re: Canon Rebel xt 350D

Posted by Gerhard Kulzer on
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/Canon-Rebel-xt-350D-tp1735562p1735570.html

On Monday, 2. January 2006 16:22, Thorsten Schnebeck wrote:

> Am Montag 02 Januar 2006 16:10 schrieb John Manfredi:
> > I did not realize how quickly I would get a response.
> >     My camera list includes
> >             "Canon Digital Rebel (Normal mode)" and
> >             "Canon Digital Rebel (PTP Mode) ".
> >
> >     It does not include  "Canon EOS 350D". I thought
> > that
> >  "Canon Digital Rebel" = "Canon 350 D", since the
> > later is not included in my camera list.
> >       I have tried  both "normal" and "PTP" mode's
> > with my Canon 350D with the camera's communications
> > set to "PC connection" and "Print/ PTP" respectively.
> > In both cases I receive the message " Failed to
> > connect to the camera. Please make sure its connected
> > properly and turned on. Would you like to try again?"
> >        I have my camera mode dial set to the manual
> > setting(the green box).
> > When my camera is set to PTP the LCD panel reads Busy,
> > however when I'm set to PC connection the camera
> > behaves as if it is not connected at all and I am able
> > to sift through my images on the LCD display as
> > normal.
>
> Hi,
>
> some infos:
> normal mode support for 350D/Rebel and 20D is experimental. You
> have to switch it on during compile time. For non-newbies this
> goes like this:
>
> cvs -d:pserver:[hidden email]:/cvsroot/gphoto login
> [RETURN]
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[hidden email]:/cvsroot/gphoto
> co -P libgphoto2
>
> cd libgphoto2/
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure CFLAGS=-DCANON_EXPERIMENTAL_20D --prefix=/usr
> --sysconfdir=/etc
> make && make install
>
> You can reset the busy flag using libptp2
> http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libptp/libptp2-1.1.0.tar.gz
> this way:
>
> ptpcam -r
>
> The permant busy-flag is a bug in Canons ptp protocoll handler.
>
> HTH
>
>   Thorsten
>
In libgphoto2-2 version 2.1.6-6 (unstable) the 350D is already included.

By the way, the 'Canon Digital Rebel' is the 300D in Europe, the 'Canon
Digital Rebel XT' corresponds to the 350D.

Gerhard

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