Most linux distros recognise digital cameras as external memory. They also recognise memory card readers, and slots within the machine for memory cards. You can always navigate through the system explorer to the external storage and select the images, copy them and paste them into a folder of your choice.

Like Windows, the mature distributions go a step further, and display a pop up if you connect a digital camera with photos inside it. There are different programs that come with different distros that recognise the image content in the camera. For most distros that use gimp, this software is f-spot. You can use f-spot to transfer, tag, manage and edit photos. When you connect a camera to the computer, this screen comes up.

Click OK. You will be asked to choose a partition to'mount. Don't get confused by this, just choose the longer of the tWo displayed file addresses. This is because most cameras store the images in a folder such as DCIM. Now F-spot can either mount the entire camera memory, or just the part with the images inside them.

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A list of images on the camera should show up. Select copy, and choose a folder to copy the images to. Using a separate directory every time you transfer images from the camera makes sense. Transferring images from a camera can be that easy.
Another way to import photos using f-spot is, starting up the program, selecting import, choosing a camera from the list of detected cameras and choosing a folder to import the images into.

To do this from the command line, type: $ cd/media/disk /media/ disk is by default the address where a camera is mounted as long as there are no other USB drives, external memory or devices connected to the computer. If there are, the disk will be fol¬lowed by the relevant number. Now use the dir command to find out the directory in which the images are stored. Assuming it is DeIM, type:$cp -R DCIM -/Photos