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gphoto2
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Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of gphoto! This is gphoto2, the
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successor of gphoto with lots of new features and additional camera
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drivers.
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If you miss a feature, would like to report success or failure, or have any
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questions, please don't hesitate to contact our mailing list.
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What is gphoto2?
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gphoto2 is a library that can be used by applications to access various
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digital cameras.
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Additionally, the command-line frontend, which is shipped with the library,
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is called gphoto2, too.
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For more information on gphoto, see
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http://www.gphoto.org
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There, you can also get information on mailing lists, supported cameras,
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and availability of gphoto2. Another source of information is
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http://www.sourceforge.org/projects/gphoto
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where you can access our CVS server to fetch the source code of
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gphoto2, gtkam and GnoCam (see below).
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What is gphoto2 not?
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gphoto2 can only talk to cameras the language of those it understands. That is,
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if you own a camera that speaks a language that isn't published anywhere and
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nobody has been able to figure out the meaning of the sentences, gphoto2 cannot
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communicate with those cameras.
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Then, there are cameras supporting the so-called USB Mass Storage protocol.
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This is a protocol that has been published and lets you access any storage
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device, be it a camera or a disk connected via USB to your computer. As there
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are already drivers for this protocol out there, you don't need an additional
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program like gphoto2. As of now, the following cameras seem to support the
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USB Mass Storage protocol:
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* Casio QV [2x00,3x00,8000]
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* FinePix [1400,2400,4700]Zoom, 1300, 4500
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* HP PhotoSmart 315, 618, 912
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* Leica Digilux 4.3
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* Minolta Dimage 7
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* Nikon Coolpix 995
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* Olympus C-100, C-200Z, C-700, C-860L, C-2040, C-3040Z, D-510
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* Sony DSC-F505(V), DSC P5
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Again, those cameras cannot be accessed through gphoto2.
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Platforms
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gphoto2 should compile and run on pretty much all Unix-like platforms.
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Additionally, there is a port for OS/2 available. gphoto2 has _not_ (yet?)
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been ported to any operating system from MicroSoft.
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How to set up gphoto2
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See gphoto2.txt.
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Frontends
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gphoto2 ships with a command line frontend which is quite powerful,
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especially in combination with scripts. See gphoto2-cli.txt for a
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short description.
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For the GUI lovers, there are for example gtkam (GTK based), and
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GnoCam (GNOME). Additionally, there are plugins for other programs
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available like kio_gphoto (KDE - Konqueror).
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