Bug 130505

Summary: panasonic fz 30 not recognized
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: deepak <deepak>
Component: Import-Gphoto2Assignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description deepak 2006-07-09 10:42:24 UTC 
Version:           0.8.2-rc1 (using KDE 3.5.3, Kubuntu Package 4:3.5.3-0ubuntu0.1 dapper)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-25-686

I have a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ 30 camera which was recognized as 'Panasonic FZ20 (alternate id)' by digikam. It then failed to get photos from the camera. 

So I did an `lsusb` for the camera for the first time and (to my surprise) found the description to be for an FZ10. Here it is:

$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 007: ID 04da:2372 Panasonic (Matsushita) Lumix DMC-FZ10 Camera

It's a generic USB mass storage style camera. I don't know enough to see if this is a digikam flaw or Linux USB flaw (incorrect description for ID) or the camera itself is sending wrong info!

Anyway, thought I should file a report and let you fine folks know!

Thanks for digikam!
Comment 1 Gerhard Kulzer 2006-07-09 11:07:21 UTC 
It's a gphoto issue (very probably), not digikam.

Try to find out what your libgphoto2 says:
$ rgrep -B2 2372 /etc/hotplug/usb/

Gerhard

Am Sonntag, 9. Juli 2006 10:42 schrieb deepak:
[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
Comment 2 deepak 2006-07-09 11:17:15 UTC 
You are right. From /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libgphoto2.rules

# Panasonic DMC-FZ20 (alternate id)
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04da", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2372", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660"

There is a crash issue here.. I am not sure if it is related or not. If I ask digikam to go ahead & retrieve files from the detected "Panasonic DMC-FZ20 (alternate id)" camera, the camera usb drive disappears & digikam hangs trying to connect to the camera.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2006-09-25 09:57:22 UTC 
Can you give the bactrace of crash to see if is releavent of digikam or libgphoto ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2007-08-22 09:17:09 UTC 
Arnd,

Sound like a libgphoto2 issue. I think than this file can be closed. Right ?

Gilles
Comment 5 Arnd Baecker 2007-08-22 09:33:57 UTC 
Apart from the fact the gphoto problems can cause digikam to crash/hang etc.
(I remember some other related reports).
Would there be a way to more safely react to problems in the connnection
with gphoto?
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2007-10-17 14:04:17 UTC 
Deepak,

Please check this issue:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150906

... and let's me hear if it solve your problem...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 7 deepak 2007-10-17 14:39:32 UTC 
Hi Gilles

I just checked on a fresh Kubuntu Gutsy setup. First, I connected the camera in regular USB mode and as before, the camera was detected as 'Panasonic FZ20 (alternate id)'. I asked digikam to connect to the camera but connection failed. Thankfully, unlike the old 0.8.2 digikam, there was no crash.

Then, as suggested in bug 150906, I set the camera to PTP (PictBridge) mode and reconnected to the PC. This time, the camera was picked up as 'Panasonic FZ20'. Digikam could now connect and download pictures without any problem!
Comment 8 caulier.gilles 2007-10-17 15:21:06 UTC 
Deepak,

Thanks for the report. This is want mean than i can close this file now...

Gilles