[Digikam-users] Tethered shooting with digikam, and thumbs

[Anders Lund]

Hi Gilles,

Just for the fun, I will install gphoto2 and see if it works using the cli 
interface. Reports follow when I have some results.... :)

Anders

On Torsdag den 19. december 2013 16:18:17, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Anders,
> 
> I implemented this feature few year ago using an old Olympus C3030Z
> which is supported tethering through GPhoto2.
> 
> This device is dead now. My new Sony camera only support PTP protocol
> through Gphoto and tethering do not work.
> 
> So, i cannot debug this part actually...
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2013/12/19 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I read lots of photo articles recently, and came to read about tethered
> > shooting. Of cause I immediately thought that would be possible with
> > digikam ;)
> > 
> > So I connected my canon eos 7d, and started to look. What I found is that
> > in the import window, in the "device" menu there is a menu item
> > indicating that this is possible.
> > 
> > However, it does not work. What happens is that the mirror appears to be
> > opened, but not closed again, and no image is captured. A small dialog
> > appears, with "help", "capture" and "cancel" buttons. Help have no
> > information about this issue, "capture" appears to close the camera
> > mirror and then open it again, while "cancel" seems to do nothing.
> > 
> > Dummy thumbs appears in the window, but they can not be displayed or
> > downloaded.
> > 
> > Now, did anyone ever try this, and maybe even experience succes with it?
> > 
> > As part of my exploring, I clicked the device->information menu item,
> > which
> > shows information about my camera - maybe from gphoto? This dialog
> > indicates that it should be possible to get thumbnails from my in camera
> > photos, and that capturing images using gphoto should be possible. This
> > of cause reminds me that there are no thumbs in the import dialog, and I
> > really wonder why this have not been fixed, an issue for as long as I can
> > remember.
> > 
> > Is the missing thumbs in the import dialog a canon specific problem? Or
> > does any canon dslr users actually have thumbnails? And what about users
> > of other camera brands?
> > 
> > --
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Anders