improving digital camera detection

[Pozsar Balazs]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:38:53PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:15 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:01 -0500, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > > That said, support in libgphoto2 would be nice so that various photo
> > > management programs don't have to roll their own.
> > 
> > 
> > The problem is that the camera list is getting longer everyday, and that
> > this conflicts with hard drives, USB keys, etc. that really look the
> > same as there is no way to tell if what kind of storage it is....
> > 
> 
> Exactly; I think the root problem is that USB cameras give the same
> USB vendor_id and product_id regardless of the camera is set to PTP
> and Mass Storage, right? 

David, I have two questions:
 - Do you know real world examples of this kind of cameras?
 - Why is it a problem, if a camera give the same ids in both modes?
   I really can't see...



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