Linux Software for Digital Cameras? 41
Elbie asks:
"I just received a digital camera as a gift,
but the only software that comes with it
is for these two OSes which look
pretty alien to me. How can I get those
pictures out of my camera (Canon PowerShot A5)
from my Linux box ? Is there any Linux software
out there, and if not how to figure out what
protocol is used (it uses a standard serial
cable to communicate with the PC)"
Try JCam (Score:1)
digital cameras. Go to http://www.jcam.com/
Figuring out digital camera serial comm. (Score:1)
Well, assuming you could not get the software development kit from the vender, then analyzing the I/O would be the next thing to do. As a professional programmer, I would set up a monitoring computer, a Sun SS2 in my case, to monitor both sides of the serial communications.
This would require 2 serial ports on the monitoring computer, (my SS2 has such), break out cable, and a sample computer, Mac or Clone.
In my case I'd have to use 19,200 bps since an SS2 using both ports for input does not have the horse power for higher rates
As time permits, I will look into writing a driver for Unix, (Solaris 7 in my case), that works with
an Epson 750z digital camera.
on the same subject... (Score:1)
Any suggestion as what to buy and not to buy?
It's for fringe pattern analysis, so the quickcam won't do, I've already tried that ;-)
The requirements would be... black and white capture (512x512x8bpp), and be well supported under linux.
Cheers,
Egor
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Maybe (Score:1)
Ask them, and they may help to find out if your camera is compatible with anything else, or they may give you a hand to reverse engineer the protocol used...
on the same subject... (Score:1)
Video4Linux in the 2.2 kernels is pretty nice, and there are a fair number of applications. Writing a command-line grabber is child's play, too.
Alan Cox has a reasonable page o' links [linux.org].
What about cam corders (video cameras) ? (Score:1)
I mailed panasonic, but they didn't bother to reply.
Anybody got any clues ?
What about cards with a video in plug? (Score:1)
The three applications that I use most often that came with xawtv [in-berlin.de] and work great. I run streamer from a cron job to capture an image every minute for the webcam on my homepage [attaway.org]. xawtv runs under X, fbtv runs under SVGA through the kernel frame buffer, and both can run overlay, grab while displaying, or snapping images while you watch. The documentation with the source tarball is excellent.
Full motion high quality video at 30fps for 14 seconds yeilded me a whopping 46MB avi! streamer will also let you grab at a framerate of your choice if you wish to make interesting time elapsed movies, such as watching grass grow...
I did have some strange problems with my bt848 card at first, but they were traced to the card not being seated in the socket correctly. I would soon find out my bt848 works like a champ.
If anyone needs help I would be glad to help as I greatly enjoy this card. I got mine as a refurbished Panasonic color egg cam package for $75 (US). It has the usual video-in RCA type connector. For good reading about video in Linux, there is the video4linux mailing list [mailto].
What about cards with a video in plug? (Score:1)
Like the guy said, Bt848 works great.
ATI tuner cards are in the process of being reverse-engineered. Project homepage is here [veiled.net].
Those floppy adaptors... (Score:1)
AS touched upon this subject before... (Score:1)
remember to be gentle with your cameras, I wasn't gentle enough ); -- Ex-digicam user
What about cards with a video in plug? (Score:1)
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Other Cameras (Score:1)
More details on the camera are available from Toshiba's web site. Prices for it vary wildly, so hit a price-list site before you buy. I found that shopper.com was the best for cameras.
you need... JCam! (Score:1)
A Linux version exists, and they say the A5 support is due Real Soon Now. Prod them - it may be ready!
Uses CompactFlash card (Score:1)
I have a cheep laptop (running Linux) that I have a network card for. I have the PCMCIA scripts setup so when I insert the card it automatcally mounts the msdos filesystem on it. I then use FTP to transfer the images to my main computer. Another option is to buy a PCMCIA card controler for your computer, though that may be more than a used laptop. If you buy a PCMCIA card controler, buy one that hooks up to the ISA or PCI bus, not the parallel port or SCSI buss. The latter two are not supported by Linux.
flashpath (Score:1)
linux photo software (Score:1)
Protocol Specs & gPhoto (Score:1)
write the manufacturer and ask for protocol details, then contact the gPhoto developers
(here [gphoto.org]) with the details. we'll build the library for you, and include it in the current CVS.
on the average, manufacturers are not-so-happy to provide protocol details (propriety stuff), so don't get your hopes up there, BUT (big BUT), if that route's a no-go, then contact the gPhoto developers anyways, and they'll help "get" the protocol with you.
of course, if there is software out there, then everything i said is for nothing...
Ahh so I did it... =) (Score:1)
and so on!
PCMCIA is waaaaaay faster, good choice btw.
-vh
Open Digita Services & Kodak DC260? (Score:1)
settings? No irq/address conflicts? And the speed
of the serial port is set to the maximum 115200?
(setserial
a 16550 UART?
Btw, there is a short delay after dumping
the connection and starting a new one.. (the delay is natural).. also 0.0.1 didn't have
error checking on the state of the camera (camera could be still finishing its last command serie, but "ks" ends normally)
Hmm, it works just fine for with 115200 speed me on FreeBSD, and on Linux.
-vh
Linux Software for Digital Cameras (Score:1)
on the same subject... (Score:1)
DOS floppy (Score:1)
Have you tried Wine? (Score:1)