August 29, 2022
Focus stacking and linux gphoto
This is a topic for exploration. How hard would it be to write a linux application
that used gphoto (or more likely libgphoto2) to get live view and image capture from
my camera? These are standard packages on Fedora, and I install them.
dnf install gphoto2
dnf install libgphoto2-devel
(this also brings in libexif-devel)
dnf install libgphoto2
(to my surprise this was already installed)
Linux and gphoto2 as a webcam
The following article talks about using gphoto to set up a Canon camera as a webcam:
He uses a Canon 70D dslr or at least shows a photo of one, but later examples list a rebel T1i (aka Canon 500D).
He gets only 720p video, but he still likes it.
He installs the following:
dnf install gphoto2 v4l2loopback ffmpeg
v4l2loopback is a kernel module.
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