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by Sergio Blanco :: Rate this Message:

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Hello there!

First of all, congratulations to all developers and contributors for
such an excellent application.

I have been tinkering with gphoto2 (2.4.7 both gphoto2 and libgphoto2)
and a Nikon D90 and there is one thing that I can't get to work. The
--capture-tethered=[COUNT] downloads the first one or two pics I make
and then stops downloading anything. When I cancel and try other
commands they do not work and I have to power off and power on the
camera. Is that normal?

Thanks in advance!!!

Sergio Blanco

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Re: Nikon D90 issues

by Daniel P. Berrange :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:46:57PM +0200, Sergio Blanco wrote:

> Hello there!
>
> First of all, congratulations to all developers and contributors for
> such an excellent application.
>
> I have been tinkering with gphoto2 (2.4.7 both gphoto2 and libgphoto2)
> and a Nikon D90 and there is one thing that I can't get to work. The
> --capture-tethered=[COUNT] downloads the first one or two pics I make
> and then stops downloading anything. When I cancel and try other
> commands they do not work and I have to power off and power on the
> camera. Is that normal?

Check the /main/settings/capturetarget and /main/imgsettings/imagequality
config settings using gphoto2 --get-config

I've seen this problem on my D90 when target was set to 'Internal RAM' while
image quality was using one of the dual raw+jpeg formats. AFAICT from the code
gphoto only downloads & deletes the jpeg image from the internal buffer,
leaving the raw images there and thus very quickly the buffer becomes full.

Daniel
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Re: Nikon D90 issues

by Marcus Meissner-4 :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:46:57PM +0200, Sergio Blanco wrote:

> Hello there!
>
> First of all, congratulations to all developers and contributors for
> such an excellent application.
>
> I have been tinkering with gphoto2 (2.4.7 both gphoto2 and libgphoto2)
> and a Nikon D90 and there is one thing that I can't get to work. The
> --capture-tethered=[COUNT] downloads the first one or two pics I make
> and then stops downloading anything. When I cancel and try other
> commands they do not work and I have to power off and power on the
> camera. Is that normal?

I tried 10 in a row with my D90 and it download them all fine :/

Might be the camera misses events somehow?

In NEF+Jpeg mode it downloaded only the NEFs, so this seems flaky.

But it should not hang after 1 or 2 images.

You can try capturing --debug --debug-logfile=xx.log traces and look at
the end of that log :/

Ciao, Marcus

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Re: Nikon D90 issues

by Marcus Meissner :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:46:57PM +0200, Sergio Blanco wrote:
> > Hello there!
> >
> > First of all, congratulations to all developers and contributors for
> > such an excellent application.
> >
> > I have been tinkering with gphoto2 (2.4.7 both gphoto2 and libgphoto2)
> > and a Nikon D90 and there is one thing that I can't get to work. The
> > --capture-tethered=[COUNT] downloads the first one or two pics I make
> > and then stops downloading anything. When I cancel and try other
> > commands they do not work and I have to power off and power on the
> > camera. Is that normal?
>
> Check the /main/settings/capturetarget and /main/imgsettings/imagequality
> config settings using gphoto2 --get-config
>
> I've seen this problem on my D90 when target was set to 'Internal RAM' while
> image quality was using one of the dual raw+jpeg formats. AFAICT from the code
> gphoto only downloads & deletes the jpeg image from the internal buffer,
> leaving the raw images there and thus very quickly the buffer becomes full.

There is a way to set the recording target, via "recordingmedia". But even
with this pointing to the SDRAM my --capture-tethered works :/

Ciao, Marcus

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Re: Nikon D90 issues

by Sergio Blanco :: Rate this Message:

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>> Check the /main/settings/capturetarget and /main/imgsettings/imagequality
>> config settings using gphoto2 --get-config

Tried both. I would prefer using the internal SDRAM as I think it
should be faster.

>> I've seen this problem on my D90 when target was set to 'Internal RAM' while
>> image quality was using one of the dual raw+jpeg formats. AFAICT from the code
>> gphoto only downloads & deletes the jpeg image from the internal buffer,
>> leaving the raw images there and thus very quickly the buffer becomes full.

So there is no way to get both NEF and JPG except a script polling and
deleting the files periodically...

>
> There is a way to set the recording target, via "recordingmedia". But even
> with this pointing to the SDRAM my --capture-tethered works :/

I tried again now and it worked for like 10 pics or so. Then it just
stopped working. The huge log doesn't say anything special except one
line:

75.501205 gphoto2-port(0): No se pudo liberar la interfaz 0 (No existe
el dispositivo).

In english:

75.501205 gphoto2-port(0): Could not free interface 0 (Device does not exist).

I also tested RAW + JPEG mode with recordingmedia pointing to SDAM. It
worked flawlessly in burst mode and surprise: it downloaded the NEF
files too (but rewrote them as JPEG and numbered as new photos o_O.
Then I wait some seconds and it failed again. I use count=1000, may
the problem be some sort of timeout or whatever. Gphoto2 doesn't close
(it doesn't return to the shell), so I don't know

If this setup works I nearly got what I wanted: NEF+RAW tethered
shooting. Now I only have to discover why it stops working if I stop
shooting for some seconds and be happy! ;-)

Thanks for your answers!

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