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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