Comments on: Tethered shooting on Ubuntu Linux using gPhoto2

By: cman

cman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:24:12 +0000

Just a request for clarity. You said you changed the script
to “gphoto2 –capture-tethered –hook-script=view”.
I was looking at the documentation for gphoto2 and it looks
like your line listed here is incorrect where you have
“-hook-script=view”. Or am I reading it wrong? I would really like to know because I will use this script for a photo shoot in a couple of weeks and would really like to try it out.

Thanks for your time

By: glopglop

glopglop — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:16:07 +0000

Nice little scripts. I tried it (tether only, not soundtrigger) with Nikon D200. It works fine, except that it keeps trying to all previous shots on the memory card rather than only the last one. So in tether, I replaced the two gphoto2 commands by this one:
gphoto2 –capture-tethered –hook-script=view
Now it works perfectly !
Regards

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By: Gabor

Gabor — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:55:51 +0000

Thanks for this description and scripts! I have Canon EOS 30D and had some trouble with downlading. My 30D was always BUSY and I was unable to take pictures.
Solution:
1. Unmount the camera folder every time, if it is mounted automatically when you switch on or connect camera.
2. Include “gphoto2 –set-config capture=off” before the “while” command to switch camera back to normal mode (to enable taking pictures).
3. Because “eog” does not show my canon raw files, I changed it in the view script to “f-spot -v “$ARGUMENT” &”. And the “pkill” to “pkill f-spot”.

Thanks again, for this tutorial!

By: Raymond

Raymond — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:12:40 +0000

Nice one, I think the sound of a snapping finger or clapping hand makes more sense than what I did which is using voice recognition to push the button on the form (I’m doing this in Windows).

I’ll have to work out how I can receive sounds generically rather than via the speech recognition module. As I’m doing this all in scripting language I’m limited to what interfaces there are.

But the idea of doing a photobooth like John Ford said — I think this is great and I need to see how I can make my script more suitable for that.

By: John Ford

John Ford — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:28:53 +0000

Fantastic! I’m doing a dance event in April and one idea I have is to setup a “photo nook” where people can go, grab a remote, and snap some nice, high-quality pics of themselves together at this event. I’ll setup all the lighting, camera, cool background all of that and basically “pre-compose” the shot for them…all they have to do is get some friends, make goofy faces at the camera, press the remote, and voila!

Now I’ll be able to additionally show the pictures live on the computer screen as soon as they take them. Yes, fantastic. Thanks a ton.

By: John Watson

John Watson — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:34:53 +0000

I don’t know. It could be the camera isn’t recognized by Gphoto2 (solution: wait for an upgrade to Gphoto2). Or it could be that the camera was mounted as a filesystem which is interfering with direct USB camera access (solution: unmount it).

By: Harri_Tku

Harri_Tku — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:20:09 +0000

Hi. I have Acer AspireOne with Linplus Linux. Gphoto2 does not get connected to EOS 5D. It says something about reserved USB-port (Error message is like this “ould not claim interface 0 (Operation not permitted). Make sure no other program or kernel module (e.g. dc2xx or stv680) is using the device and you have read/write access to the device. ”

Has someone solution for “out-of-the box” aspire one and this great tether-script.

Thank you.

By: swein

swein — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:18:55 +0000

Hi, thats really cool, i looked for something like this really long time. I have two nikons Coolpix 5700 – tether works at all with no changes in the script, but i can’t force it to take pictures with soundtrigger; Coolpix L12 – tether doesn’t work, soundtrigger takes the picture but doesn’t copy it to the computer. I hope, I fix it;-)

By: jason

jason — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:13:53 +0000

BTW, my Linux is fedora8, and I am using the preinstalled gphoto2, the one you can install using add/remove program.s