Re: [Gphoto-user] Newbie questions - capturing images from Canon PowerShow A520

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Jyri Hovila <jyr...@ol...> writes:

> Hello, world!
>
> I finally bought my first digital camera in the hope that I could use
> it as a high quality web camera. Naturally, I soon found myself from
> a swamp of new and exotic problems. ;)
>
> I'm using OpenBSD 3.7 and gphoto2 version 2.1.6. Gphoto does not
> recognize the camera correctly (it's identified as 'Canon:PowerShot
> SD400 (normal mode)'), but all the "offline" functions still work ok:
> I can download files from the camera etc.

Hmm. Could you send me the output of "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices"?
It seems we got the product ID wrong for your camera.

> My question is: is it possible to capture images directly from the
> camera using this version of gphoto2? I mean can I actually take
> pictures using gphoto2 without touching the camera? If it is not
> possible yet, could this kind of functionality be implemented in any
> near-future version of gphoto?

Well, not if the camera doesn't have that capability. Some newer
Canon consumer cameras don't; check your Canon software manual.

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