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Capturing photos from your own camera over USB with gphoto2: what its README and man page state
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What this guide covers
For photographers and video makers who want to control their own camera from a computer. It sums up what the gphoto2 README and man page state about finding a camera, handling files, reading settings, and single, interval and tethered capture. Documentation only; no camera was connected and nothing was run.
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Capturing photos from your own camera over USB with gphoto2: what its README and man page state
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For photographers and video makers who want to control their own camera from a computer. It sums up what the gphoto2 README and man page state about finding a camera, handling files, reading settings, and single, interval and tethered capture. Documentation only; no camera was connected and nothing was run.
Useful starting points
- Tethered capture needs support from both the driver and the camera, so check the man page wording before planning a shoot around it.
- By default the program does not keep downloaded images on the camera's memory card, so check that setting before treating the card as a backup.
- Interval capture runs for an unlimited number of frames unless a frame count is set.
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