WebCam Cannon powershot A520
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Sep 26 23:18:31 UTC 2009
On 09/26/2009 04:07 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:56 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Interesting - thanks! Never new about the gphoto2 options. However:
>
> I sortof remembered them, but have never had a camera that supported
> remote control. Until my brother left his A520 over here, that is ;)
>
>>> gphoto2 --auto-detect --set-config capure=1
>>
>> $ gphoto2 --auto-detect --set-config capure=1
>> Model Port
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> Canon PowerShot A75 (PTP mode) usb:
>>
>>
>> *** Error ***
>> The capure widget is not configurable.
>> *** Error (-2: 'Bad parameters') ***
>> blah.
>>
>> Perhaps the command is incorrect? I'll have to study the docs.
>
> Oops - typo on my part - should be:
>
> gphoto2 --auto-detect --set-config capture=1
>
> (capture, not capure)
>
> At least it picks the right model, and you can see the pics :) I'm
> really curios to see if you can put the A75 into capture mode - I
> could then (probably) rule out underlying conflicts and focus on
> gphoto/libptp.
Just noticed the same :-)
$ gphoto2 --auto-detect --set-config capture=1
Model Port
----------------------------------------------------------
Canon PowerShot A75 (PTP mode) usb:
value 1, t 1
Yep. Lens is open. :-)
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