#The canon A70 supports the new PTP standard
#and that is what was found with:
gphoto2 --auto-detect
#To get all the files off the flash just:
gphoto2 -P
#Note the A70 native mode is supposedly the
#same as G3 (which is explicitly supported).

#got a new 128MB flash card (twinmos FCF128S)
#that's supposed to be 26X (3.9MB/s), though
#testing on linux showed 1.22MB/s. It was CPU
#bound, so maybe DMA could be turned on or something?

#I think I got a core dump as there was an invalid
#9K file containing chinese characters written to the flash,
#rendering it useless (as the camera hung trying to read it).
#I had to mount the flash and copy all images
#off and reformat to get back the flash to a useable state.

At end of 2005 I noticed artifacts on the stored
data suggesting these was a problem with the CCD.
This was especially bad for video. Sure enough there
does seem to be a problem:
http://www.canon-asia.com/index.jsp?fuseaction=image-phenomena_notice
It does seem to have corrected itself though
(maybe dependent on atmospheric conditions?)
I might give 1890 200 563 a call to see what's the story.