AFAIK, there is no standard.  You just have to find the app that does what
you need, with the camera you have.

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> 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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