Linux, gphoto2, and the Canon 20D

I have a Canon EOS 20D and exclusively run Linux. I want to begin doing macro photography with my 20D in a variety of setups, and what would be really nice would be able to connect a USB cable to the camera and control the camera from the computer, and in addition get a quick look at the images I take on a large screen. This is my goal, let's see how easy it is to get there.

I am running Fedora Core 8 (circa February, 2008), and find that I have both Gphoto2 as well as libgphoto2on my machine. There is a package called gtkam (which is actually a project on the gphoto page). This is not available as a yum package and does not seem to be on my system, they suggest it as a reference implementation for a graphical libgphoto2 client, which hints that it is not intended to be a real working graphical application.

Here are some links to reference information:

Here are links to my notes:

The following link had a nice discussion of all this, and I ran across this via a google search on Canon 20D gphoto2 capture. Canon 20D gphoto This guy was active in December of 2007, so this may be good current information.


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