Bug 258227

Summary: Support for Tethered shooting (transfer new images directly to the PC via e.g. USB)
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Simon <simon.eu>
Component: Import-Gphoto2Assignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, dmpop, info
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Rawstudio Tethered Shooting

Description Simon 2010-11-28 22:09:47 UTC 
Version:           2.0.0 (using KDE 4.5.4) 
OS:                Linux

gphoto2 supports tethered shooting with the option --capture-tethered. This is usually used when the Cam is connected to a PC with a (longer) USB cable; The images taken will be transferred to the PC directly and can be viewed in higher resolution (and by more people).

As gphoto2 only downloads the image, there are some scripts around which also display incoming images, like this one: http://rian76.blogspot.com/2009/09/tethering-from-your-nikon-to-your-linux.html

But for digikam users it would certainly be more convenient to simply use digikam for this :)

I guess digikam can not or does not want to rely on gphoto2, but I also guess that it sould be easy to test for its existance on runtime?

Anyway, would be great to see this in digikam! :)

Reproducible: Always




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.36-1.slh.2-aptosid-amd64
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2010-11-29 08:25:01 UTC 
Capture mode from digiKAm Camera Interface is not enough ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Simon 2010-11-29 09:15:47 UTC 
I don't know. I tried to use it, but then the D90 just seemed to open and the dialog showed «capturing» in the progress dialog about 10 times per second, but nothing happened. 
If it simply takes a picture when pressing a button on the PC, then no, it is not enough. This would actually even be contraproductive ;)
This video might explain tethered shooting (cannot listen to it right now, but from looking at it it seems to be about what I imagine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObqWe9ZFMcI
Comment 3 Dmitri Popov 2011-06-01 22:58:29 UTC 
Created attachment 60546 [details]
Rawstudio Tethered Shooting
Comment 4 Dmitri Popov 2011-06-01 23:00:22 UTC 
The digiKam Camera interface is pretty limited. Functionality similar to Tethered Shooting feature in Rawstudio (see the attached screenshot) would a great addition.
Comment 5 Geert Janssens 2011-08-09 09:11:20 UTC 
There are three enhancement requests for this in the database:
Bug 186574
Bug 207936
Bug 258227

Should they be marked as duplicates of only one ?
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2011-08-09 09:20:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186574 ***
Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2021-12-17 21:31:31 UTC 
Fixed with #186574