GPhoto

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The correct title of this article is gPhoto. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

gPhoto is a free software package of digital camera applications with support for more than 600 cameras. It is available under the GNU General Public License. gPhoto runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.

gPhoto has support for the Picture Transfer Protocol and will also connect to devices that use the Media Transfer Protocol.

Many cameras are not supported by gPhoto, but have support for the USB mass storage device class, which is well-supported under GNU/Linux.

gPhoto provides a library, libgphoto2, to allow for other frontends to be written for it, and a command line interface. gtkam is the official GUI client for gPhoto, other clients are the KDE program digikam, the Gnome program gThumb and the Mono based F-Spot.