Comments on: Tethered shooting on Ubuntu Linux using gPhoto2

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

By: jason

jason — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:12:04 +0000

Make sure to put the camera to PTP mode from the Mass Storage Mode, in my case for Nikon D70. I spent hours trying to find out why the gphoto2 –auto-dectect does not work. After I put the Camera to PTP mode from M mode(Mass storage), it works great. It should have been mentioned in the article.
Anyhow, thank you very much. This is what I have been looking for to shoot the home studio indoor portraits.

Thank you.

By: Jimmy Cabalum

Jimmy Cabalum — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:46:02 +0000

Thanks for the great script!

The only problem I had with it is that the since the script deleted the files everytime time after it copied it, the file scheme went back to whatever_1.JPG, so it gave asked me if I wanted to overwrite instead of opening up the new file. I tweaked the tether script a bit so that it saves the files as 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, and so forth, so each picture is saved and pops up on your screen, without asking you if you want to overwrite. I also tweaked the view script to open up Eye of Gnome in full screen.

I didn’t do anything with the soundtrigger script, but I’m sure it could easily be adapted. Here’s my revisions in case anyone else would like to use them:
http://rapidshare.com/files/110692141/tether.tar.gz.html

By: Roel Willems

Roel Willems — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:37:14 +0000

Great script! Works out of the box on Ubuntu 7.10 and Nikon D70.

By: hadez

hadez — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:58:44 +0000

tested with a Nikon D200 on Gentoo Linux
worked out of the box.
thanks a lot for this great script!

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:15:24 +0000

Oh bloody hell! This is great! I edited your soundtrigger script and removed the sound bits and the camera took a photo when I hit space.

Oh! I’ll have fun with this!

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:07:40 +0000

Nice, worked on my Canon 20D too, except I had to change the path, and as the drive activity light lights up every second so I increased the sleep time.

I wonder what else it can do ..

By: John Watson

John Watson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:23:10 +0000

Ha! Exactly! :-)

By: parl

parl — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:24:56 +0000

The clapper for cameras…

By: Bryan Villarin

Bryan Villarin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:16:50 +0000

Thanks for writing about this. I didn’t know this was possible! I’m not talking about on Ubuntu, but in general. I’ll try this tomorrow for kicks…