On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:59:44AM +0100, Jan Kechel wrote: > >> Sadly the most cool feature does not work: Take a picture while the > >> camera is connected via usb, still having full control over the camera's > >> own buttons/menu and automatically having the just token image > >> transferred to the pc and displaying it while making the next foto. > > > > There's a *lot* of el-cheapo web cams which can do this sort > > of thing free (beer/freedom) via v4l or even usb picture > > mode (think Digikam & friends). > > Hi, I'm really curious if you are right! > > I tried three different SDKs (Canon SDK, Nikon SDK and Olympus SDK), and > the only one where it really worked was a small subset: the Olympus > E-System cameras in combination with there 'Mocha' driver. > > All other cameras i tried, switched themselves into some kind of > pc-controlled mode as soon as you connect them via usb. Sure, you could > still trigger a photo with your pc, but what we wanted is > - - the camera fully operating like it wasn't connected to the pc
Aaah, OK, I didn't fully understand this requirement. > The 2nd thing is, that we wanted to be able to take macro-photos of > human skin, which is easily possible with macro lenses of the E-System. Yeah, that's right, el-cheapo web cams won't support macro lenses :-) Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
