[Digikam-devel] GPhoto2 - Capture

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 10:29:00 GMT 2009


Please come with your camera at coding sprint. We will hack this
feature together.

My Minolta camera is not in the list of supported gphoto2 model witch
can be remote controled...

Gilles

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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