Taking photos of displays...

[9000 VAX]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:00:13 +0000, Jules Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:26 -0500, 9000 VAX wrote:
> > > Under Linux, I don't think there's any way I can pull metadata off the
> > > camera along with images - so if I take lots of shots under a trial and
> > > error approach, I have to note down what settings I was using for which
> > > shot which is getting to be a pain in the butt!
> >
> > I am using Nikon 995 and I download the images to linux directly (via
> > USB). The model supports the kind of flash storage protocal, and I can
> > mount it directly as a local directory. I heard that many new cameras
> > could be mounted too.
> 
> Good point. I don't think Gphoto (at least the version I have) works
> with my camera (a Canon G5) in PTP mode - which is what I believe would
> be needed for it to copy all the extra metadata stuff as well as
> images...  but you're probably right, and it probably appears under the
> filesystem somewhere which might do the job.

I have to do this manually, with root privilege,
"/sbin/modprobe usb-storage;  mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera;"
It works on RH and fedora. 

cheers,
vax, 9000

> 
> I've just been playing around and had a lot of luck with trying the
> suggestion of taking two seperate images then combining them in software
> - the monitor taken on automatic and the screen done on manual (0.4
> secs / f8.0, along with re-evaluating the white balance). Problem
> solved, I think :)
> 
> cheers to all
> 
> Jules
> 
>