| serialphoto - triggers a dc240 digital-stills camera for taking numerous pictures at regular time intervals. |
| serialphoto-1.0.5.tar.gz |
| serialphoto [-d nbseconds | -delay nbseconds] [-p prefix | -prefix prefix] [-n nbpic | -nbpic nbpic] [-h] |
| serialphoto triggers a connected kodak DC240 digital camera. It will take nbpic pictures, or as many pictures as possible if no number was given on command-line (the limit is usually the camera batteries' life). |
| serialphoto will try to take those every nbseconds (default value: 10s). When the delay is too short, the camera might not have time to compress and transmit the picture, if so, the next picture is shot as fast as possible. |
| After each shot, serialphoto downloads the picture from the camera and deletes it from the camera. The output filename will be: prefix-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.jpg. |
| serialphoto overwrites existing files. |
| If no prefix is given, prefix is set with the digital camera's internal filename. |
| -d nbsec or -delay nbsec |
| Sets the time interval between two pictures to nbsec seconds. The default value is 10 seconds. |
| -p prefix or -prefix prefix |
| Sets the filename prefix to prefix. The default value is the internal filename of the digital camera. |
| -n nbpic or -nbpic nbpic |
| Sets the total number of picture to be shot. If ommited, serialphoto triggers snapshots until manually halted. |
| serialphoto arbitrarily uses te file /dev/usb/dc240 (the value is hardcoded in the source) to access the digital camera. |
| It can be created with: mknod /dev/usb/dc240 c 180 80 |
| serialphoto -d 60 -n 120 -prefix sunset |
| will take 120 pictures, with 1 minute delay in between each, ie: 2 hours of survey. It will also name the pictures like this : sunset-20020825-203000.jpg etc ... |
| (1)dumpdc240 |
| serialphoto doesn't halt properly when the camera runs out of batteries. It also overwrites without any warning any previously existing file... |
| serialphoto always leaves at least one picture in the camera, because with the current code it would hang when trying to erase the one and only remaining picture. |
| serialphoto and dumpdc240 are mainly an extraction of gphoto's dc240 interface code whith several small patches. |
| Please, check for latest releases at http://serialphoto.disjunkt.com, and submit bug reports and comments to pjd@disjunkt.com. |
| Jean-Daniel Pauget <pjd@disjunkt.com>: command line interface and small timestamp patches |
| Randy D. Scott <scottr@wwa.com>: Kodak DC240 library |
| David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>: Kodak DC240 USB library patch |
| $Id: serialphoto.1,v 1.3 2003/03/11 11:46:46 jd Exp $ |