To download images from your digital camera, simply connect the camera to the USB port of your computer using the USB cable provided by the camera manufacturer. Depending on your camera model, you may need to switch your camera to a special data transfer mode. Consult the camera's manual about this.
There are four possibilities for accessing the pictures on the camera:
USB Mass Devices. If your camera can be switched to a USB mass storage device, select this option. After you connect the camera to the USB port of your computer and turn the camera on, the new USB device is automatically detected and mounted. KDE lets you select the action to take in the event of any such device being mounted. You can choose to start digiKam or any other image viewing or processing application whenever a device of this type is mounted.
PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol, also Known as PictBridge). If your camera can be switched to PTP, select this option. Normally your camera is not automatically mounted in PTP mode, but can be accessed through digiKam.
Special Drivers and Gphoto2. If your camera supports neither USB mass storage nor PTP, try the special drivers provided by gphoto2, see Section 17.12, “Troubleshooting”
Card Readers. Nowadays cameras can use different non-volatile memory cards. For example, SD memory cards, compact flash (CF), memory sticks, to name a few. Some new computers have a card reader on board with different slots, to support all these formats. If you do not want to deal with cables, protocols, or drivers, select this option, as it simplifies a lot. Normally, card readers are detected as removeable devices and are automatically mounted in KDE.
To set up a camera in digiKam, select
+ + . First, try to detect the camera automatically with . If this fails, browse the list of supported cameras for your model with . If your camera model is not included in the list, try an older model or use USB/IEEE mass storage camera and confirm with .