Hi, You need to switch the camera to "PC Control" mode in the camera.
In Mass Storage mode it is not controllable. Ciao, Marcus On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:32:29PM +0000, MS via Gphoto-devel wrote: > Hi team > > Great work with such a fantastic library, and helping photographers > everywhere to take over their tools. At least in theory. > > Im trying to use a raspberry pi to trigger taking a picture (for a timelapse) > although I struggle with errors. > > I have installed gphoto2, and i can see the camera in lsusb > > $ lsusb > Bus 001 Device 010: ID 054c:07c8 Sony Corp. > > Before I installed exfat-utils, it wasn't listed in gphoto2 but now is > > $ gphoto2 --auto-detect > Model Port > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Mass Storage Camera disk:/media/pi/3431-6530 > > Now I want to just take a picture. I try running my command but its > unsuccessful > > $ env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt > --capture-image-and-download --filename photo > > *** Error *** > > This camera can not capture. > > ERROR: Could not capture image. > > ERROR: Could not capture. > > *** Error (-6: 'Unsupported operation') *** > > The A7S should be supported, I checked, and there are people online for whom > it works. I tried multiple USB3 cables too. > > I've attached full debug logs. > > Maybe there's other requirements I am missing? Please help? > _______________________________________________ Gphoto-devel mailing list Gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gphoto-devel
