On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 03:36:28PM +0100, Adam Kemeny wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > I’m trying to understand when a camera is effectively ‘guaranteed' to work > with gPhoto as, at present, this isn’t clear to me at all. > > For example, the Canon EOS M3. > > If I look at the list of supported cameras > <http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php> the M3 is described as > having full control with 'Image Capture, Trigger Capture, Liveview, > Configuration’. This, to me, makes it look like I can use this camera to take > photos with gPhoto.
Yes, this usually marks it. > However if I look at the summary text here > <https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/blob/master/camlibs/ptp2/cameras/canon-eos-m3.txt> > I see 'File Download, File Deletion, File Upload, No Image Capture, No Open > Capture, Canon EOS Shutter Button’. This would seem to contradict the > supported cameras list. This information is received from the first report of a user. "Canon EOS Shutter Button" is actually an indicator of being able to do Canon EOS Capture. > The summary text matches what I see from the M3 I just bought and the feature > limitations are also as the summary describes. Basically I can view and > download images from the M3 but cannot take photos with it. > > This email thread > <http://gphoto-software.10949.n7.nabble.com/Canon-EOS-M-users-td16515.html> > called 'Canon EOS M* users’ suggests that M3 capture is possible, which > again, is contradicted by the summary and my own experience. > > I can return the M3, which is fine, I’m just curious how to work out if a > camera on the supported camera list is *definitely* controllable by gPhoto. > I’ve been using gPhoto for a few years now and it’s absolutely brilliant, > this particular part doesn’t quite make sense to me though :) One thing that is incorrect is that the EOS M series currently does not allow configuration, there there the support page is incorrect. gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download should work though. Ciao, Marcus _______________________________________________ Gphoto-devel mailing list Gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gphoto-devel
