Miscellaneous:USB camera howto
From Lunar Linux
Get pictures from your camera with gphoto2
install gphoto2
lin -cr gphoto2
This will install the required libgphoto2 which in turn will demand installing libusb and libexif... i said yes to both.
"libusb" "For usb camera support" say "yes" "libexif" "For EXIF tag support" say "yes"
setting up permissions to access your camera as a normal user
I only tested this with udev and hotplug, so that's kernel 2.6.x. follow this guideand choose to install udev.