On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:32:40PM +0000, Shailesh Bhate wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a Canon EOS R8 camera that was released by Canon earlier this
> year. I noticed that it is not listed under the supported cameras list for
> gphoto2. I would appreciate if gphoto2 could support this camera in the near
> future.
>
> My Raspberry Pi running Raspbian OS detects the camera connected via
> the USB as a generic PTP camera. However, when I issue gphoto2
> --capture-image the camera shutter clicks, I get a confirmation message that
> an image was captured on the camera (alongwith a corresponding filename).
> However, I do not find anything on the camera's SD card. I searched for
> similar issues on the internet and found that I need to set config value
> "capturetarget=card" which I did but even this did not help. I do not see any
> file stored on the SD card. I am not a developer and hence not 100% sure but
> I feel this is because gphoto2 does not understand how to work with the R8
> completely yet. Perhaps some aspects work and others need to be "onboarded"?
>
> If there is anything I could do to help with onboarding this
> camera model to gphoto2, then I would be glad to chip in.
try
gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download
for immediate download from SDRAM.
For keeping it on the SD CARD:
gphoto2 --get-config capturetarget
to see the options
and then do:
gphoto2 --set-config capturetarget=card
(or whatever string "card" is in the get-config list)
Ciao, Marcus
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