[Digikam-devel] GPhoto2 - Capture

[Gilles Caulier]

Aha. why ?

Do you know Astro photo ? Nature photo ? Scientific photo ?

Remote camera control is used in a lots of situation...

And in the future wireless control will be avaialble...

Gilles Caulier

2009/11/7 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> For me this feature is rather useless (why take a picture while it is plugged
> into the computer :-)), but I wanted to test CameraUI.
> Actually this method has two issues:
>
> 1. Capturing somewhat fails (image is taken, but not download-able)
> 2. Lockup of digiKam, we need to kill it (if gp_camera_capture does not
> return)
>
> Andi
>
> On Saturday 07 November 2009 11:07:06 Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> Andi,
>>
>> Well, no... I cannot test anymore this feature, because when i have
>> written this part my old Olympus camera work fine. Now, it's dead
>> (:=))).
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>> 2009/11/7 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > the capture method of gphoto2 will simply lock digiKam if you do the
>> > following (at least with my camera, Nikon D50):
>> >
>> > 1. Turn on your cam, plug it in
>> > 2. in PTP mode, select capture from CameraUI
>> > 3. Close your lens (cover it with your lens protection)
>> > 4. Now autofocus will fail and the camera will not return a status or
>> > something like that?
>> > 5. gp_camera_capture will stick in its loop, never returning again
>> > 6. we also can not cancel, since GPCamera is stuck in its event loop
>> >
>> > Can you confirm this for your camera model, too?
>> >
>> > If so we need to contact gphoto2, because this lockup is not avoidable.
>> >
>> > Andi
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