Amazing, it worked. I spent all day on this and was *this* close to buy their 
timelapse app. Thank you Marcus, for such a prompt response. 



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On Friday, July 24, 2020 1:54 PM, Marcus Meissner <meiss...@suse.de> wrote:

> 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?

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