Is there a standard?  If so, what is it?

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:33:29
-0500(EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I think its also worthwhile to clarify that gphoto is not the
> 'standard' for controlling digitial cameras.  Thus, looking at its
> compatibility list you're not going to get a full picture of which
> cameras can perform the operations Roger listed below.
> 
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> > Through all this I think one needs to define what how they want to
> > access the camera:
> >
> >     - Simply get the images
> >
> >             - USB
> >
> >             - some sort of smart media
> >
> >     - Control the camera
> >
> >             - just to get images off of it
> >
> >             - manipulate settings and get pictures
> >
> >             - GUI or command line
> >
> > Most cameras will do some of these, some will do all. So, to say a
> > camera works is a bit incomplete.
> >
> > The gphoto site maintain a list of the cameras that work with the
> > two version of their library (gphoto and gphoto2). Too bad the nice
> > gphoto GUI only works with the original gphoto lib, which supports
> > far fewer cameras. The gphoto2 library is limited to a command line
> > app. I have never gotten gphoto2 to work in konqueror, which has a
> > module for this.
> >
> 
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