My deepest appreciation. Thank you, Marcus, for all of that detailed 
explanation and clarification!


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> Le 13 janv. 2025 à 05:25, Marcus Meissner <mar...@jet.franken.de> a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:59:46AM -0500, Sam Friedman wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> I have a slightly generalized set of questions:
>> 
>> 1) What is the path by which a camera gets full support?
> 
> There is camera classes, which Canon EOS is one part.
> 
> If the camera belongs to such a class, it will work even without having the 
> USB Id specified directly.
> 
> There are some small pieces added for the R100, but it largely should work.
> 
>> 2) How do I install a libgphoto2 version that isn't a released version?
> 
> Either you can do yourself:
> 
> git clone  https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/
> autoreconf -i -f
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/ --libdir=
> make
> sudo make install
> 
> or on Debian like systems there is a tool doing mostly the same:
> https://github.com/gonzalo/gphoto2-updater
> 
>> 3) If I have a libgphoto2 version running locally that supports my camera,
>> how do I ensure python-gphoto2 is binded to the specific version of
>> libgphoto2?
> 
> See Jims mail.
> 
>> As an example (and the one relevant to my needs):
>> The Canon R100 seems to be supported in libgphoto2 version 2.5.31.1
>> <https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/issues/924>. However, reading user
>> jensanjo's output in `summary.txt`, makes it sound like the camera doesn't
>> actually support image capture, just file downloading.
> 
> it lists:
> 
>        No Image Capture, No Open Capture, Canon EOS Capture, Canon EOS 
> Capture 2
> 
> Meaning it supports EOS Capture.
> 
>> The R100 is not listed on the gphoto2 site's list of supported cameras
>> <http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php>.
> 
> This will happen once I find time to do a 2.5.32 release.
> 
>> So I'm curious how I can go from my current state which is having the
>> released version of gphoto2, libgphoto2, and python-gphoto2 on my system,
>> to 1) having a system that can run the R100 at presently-supported levels,
>> and then 2) at full-support levels.
> 
> Ciao, Marcus
> 
> 
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