Marcus, yes, thanks! That's what I ended up doing, but it would be preferable overal to maintain the mirror up during the whole capture stack to avoid camera shakes.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:22 AM Marcus Meissner <mar...@jet.franken.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:44:09AM -0400, Hernan Badino wrote: > > Hi, I'm using gphoto2 for a FYI microrail setup for macro photography. > One > > of the problems I have is that the camera and setup vibrate when the > > shutter releases upon a capture request and would like to avoid it by > > locking the mirror up, as the live view of the camera. These > > are micro-vibrations, which in most cases won't really matter, but in > macro > > photography they cause motion blur. When the camera is in live view, the > > mirror is always open, so capturing an image doesn't involve a physical > > motion, avoiding the vibrations. Does gphoto2 allow to capture images in > > this mode somehow? > > Hi, > > it depends a bit on the camera. > > Usually triggering a capture in liveview mode however flips the mirror up > and down, so it would not do what you want. > > But cameras support Mirror Up capture. > > - Nikons: set mirror up mode via "capturemode" config. > > you then need to do "capture-image" multiple times, first time flips up > the mirror > second time takes the actual capture. > > - Canon EOS ... would have to research it first. > > Ciao, Marcus > -- - Hernan
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