import images from Lumix DC-FZ10002 (cable-USB, Windows 11)

Software darktable
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I am new to digital photography, to my LUMIX FZ-10002 and to Darktable.
I am trying to import images from my camera to DT, using an USB cable, unsuccessfully.

I can’t see my camera anywhere in DT after connecting the USB cable. It is recognized and mounted as an USB device; I unmount (eject) it but nothing happens in DT. I can’t see the “Scan for devices” button, either.

May I please have any hint on how to proceed?

I already imported images using PhotfunStudio (a Panasonic free utility), and noticed that each group of Focus Bracketed pictures were stored in a specific folder (which is great), although exposure bracketed pictures weren’t (which is not so great). So, can I expect DT to store bracketed pictures together, any sort of it (exposure, focus, aperture, wb)?

thanks

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Hi and welcome!

Your camera needs to be supporter by gphoto2, which it is not: gPhoto - Projects :: libgphoto2 :: supported cameras so that feature isn’t going to work.

Take the memory card out of the camera and use a USB reader, then you should be able to use “copy and import” from the lighttable view.

No.

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Welcome @amc .
As a fellow Lumix user and also newer photo hobbyist I’d like to say hello.
It might be preferable to import only the photos you’d like to process/edit in darktable to the DT library.
I take lots of photos of photos, enthusiastically, and I’ve found that I only want to make some of them better in DT. So I import them all to a folder on my hard drive, and only import the ones that I think would be good to edit.
Bruce Williams has a great YouTube video on photo file storage, I’ll see if I can get the link to post up here later today.

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Here’s one of them : https://youtu.be/Yhnrrn4Mv-w?si=0AeWcK3_kc3fv3RE

His method is a little more involved than what I use, but the principles are sound…basically keep a single location for all photos, then select the ones you’d like to edit and place them in a directory for DT to access.
I keep mine in a single “PhotosImportALL” Folder, with subfolders for camera type. I’ve found that all the other sorting that I might require can occur in DT (ie: by date, by type, etc…).

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Aha. I didn’t know about that. Thanks you very much.
I will decide whether to use DT or the or the Panasonic utility for import.

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Thanks, Yes, I will be selective on importing photos to DT. Anyway, I will transfer photos in bulk to my computer for persistent storage. From there, I will select few of them to process (well, to learn how to process)

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Yes, I will include Bruce Williams channel to check video tutorials.
Thanks

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See also this comment from the libgphoto2 devs.

Have you already seen the Windows specific notes in the FAQ?

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In fact, my FZ.10002 was ONCE recognized as the Panasonic mentioned in the libgphoto2 thread you mentioned. But once and never again.
So, I will check the Windows notes to see if I can get my camera recognized.

thanks