Hi, The manualfocusdrive is for the focus motor, not the zoom motor ;)
zoom in EOS speak was largely for liveview zooming. There is a "powerzoom" opcode, which is not yet hooked up, as I do not know the argument meaning. Ciao, Marcus On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:23:49AM +0000, Nuno Pereira wrote: > Meanwhile I realised I shouldn't be using the parameter "manualfocusdrive" > as that controls focus and not zoom. > > However, I have tried to change the "eoszoom" parameter but it has no > effect and I can't change it's value. > Should I be able to control the zoom of the Canon G7 X Mark III? > > Thanks again for your help. > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:26 PM Nuno Pereira <n...@pro-drone.eu> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am currently using a canon G7X Mk III with gphoto2. > > I have managed to capture and download photographs using both gphoto2 from > > the terminal and with C++. I have also managed to change other parameters > > such as capturetarget and save the photographs to an SD card. > > > > However, I am having problems controlling zoom through gphoto. I read that > > first I need to change the parameter "viewfinder" to 1, which i can do > > because the screen goes black when I do it. After that i try to set the > > "manualfocusdrive" using (for example) "Near 1" or "Far 2" but > > nothing happens, but it also doesn't give me any error message. > > > > Do you have any idea how to fix this and how I could control the zoom with > > gphoto? > > > > Many thanks for the help, > > Nuno > > > _______________________________________________ > Gphoto-devel mailing list > Gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gphoto-devel _______________________________________________ Gphoto-devel mailing list Gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gphoto-devel
