[Digikam-devel] GPhoto2 - Capture

[Andi Clemens]

Well I do this without carrying a PC around :D
This is why I have an remote control for my cam :)

Well anyway... it doesn't work correctly and I reported a bug now in gphoto2's 
tracker.

Andi

On Saturday 07 November 2009 11:25:58 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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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