HI,

The Panasonic DMC do not support capture over USB at this time 
to our current knowledge.

This is a camera side limitation.

Ciao, Marcus
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:59:51AM +0200, Arne Demyttenaere wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to use my digital camera as a webcam but it seems that the
> function "capture image" isn't supported by the Gphoto-driver.
> I also see that my camera isn't named correctly (it is a "Panasonic DMC-FZ5"
> and not a "Panasonic DMC-FS62").
> 
> ~ $ gphoto2 --abilities
> Abilities for camera             : Panasonic DMC-FS62
> Serial port support              : no
> USB support                      : yes
> Capture choices                  :
>                                  : Capture not supported by the driver
> Configuration support            : no
> Delete selected files on camera  : yes
> Delete all files on camera       : no
> File preview (thumbnail) support : yes
> File upload support              : yes
> 
> As proposed in your website I'm sending you the output of lsusb, of gphoto2
> --auto-detect and of gphoto2 --capture-image.
> 
> ~ $ lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0458:0007 KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
> Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 006 Device 002: ID 046d:c31d Logitech, Inc. Media Keyboard K200
> Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 005: ID 04da:2374 Panasonic (Matsushita) Lumix Camera (PTP
> mode)
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> 
> 
> ~ $ gphoto2 --auto-detect
> Model Port
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Panasonic DMC-FS62             usb:004,005
> 
> 
> ~ $ gphoto2 --capture-image
> *** Error ***
> Sorry, your camera does not support generic capture
> ERROR: Could not capture image.
> ERROR: Could not capture.
> *** Error (-6: 'Unsupported operation') ***
> For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
> Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
> If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
> developer mailing list <gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, please run
> gphoto2 as follows:
>     env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt
> --capture-image
> Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
> 
> 
> Annexed you wil find the output of
> |LANG=C gphoto2 --summary >summary.txt
> ||LANG=C gphoto2 --list-all-config >config.txt|
> 
> Thanks in advance for helping me out.
> 
> Arne
> 
> 

> /main/status/serialnumber
> Label: Serial Number
> Type: TEXT
> Current: None
> /main/status/manufacturer
> Label: Camera Manufacturer
> Type: TEXT
> Current: MATSUSHITA
> /main/status/cameramodel
> Label: Camera Model
> Type: TEXT
> Current: None
> /main/status/deviceversion
> Label: Device Version
> Type: TEXT
> Current: 1.0
> /main/status/vendorextension
> Label: Vendor Extension
> Type: TEXT
> Current: None

> Camera summary:
> Manufacturer: MATSUSHITA
> Model: (null)
>   Version: 1.0
> 
> Capture Formats: 
> Display Formats: Association/Directory, Script, DPOF, Apple Quicktime, JPEG, 
> TIFF
> 
> Device Capabilities:
>       File Download, No File Deletion, File Upload
>       No Image Capture, No Open Capture, No vendor specific capture
> 
> Storage Devices Summary:
> store_00010001:
>       StorageDescription: None
>       VolumeLabel: None
>       Storage Type: Removable RAM (memory card)
>       Filesystemtype: Digital Camera Layout (DCIM)
>       Access Capability: Read-Write
>       Maximum Capability: 2032664576 (1938 MB)
>       Free Space (Bytes): 1667432448 (1590 MB)
>       Free Space (Images): 0
> 
> Device Property Summary:
> 


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