Re: [Gphoto-user] Fwd: Setting up access to USB port

[Marcus M. <mei...@su...>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:58:04AM -0600, Jean-Sebastien Stoezel wrote:
> Sorry for the double post. While reading the Nikon SDK documentation I
> realized that the camera needs to be in PTP mode. Once in PTP mode,
> you need to kill the following process that is started automatically:
> 
> /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/PTPCamera.app/Contents/MacOS/PTPCamera
> 
> After this is done, the camera can be automatically detected and accessed.
> 
> I was able to remote capture with gphoto. I noticed the capture takes
> a while to start (10s). When using an interval (say every second), the
> capture is way quickr (almost instantaneous). Any idea how to speed up
> this lag?

The startup of libgphoto2 might be that it reads all directory information
from the camera at startup. If there are lots of images on the card,
this will take a while.

Ciao, Marcus