possibility of capture-image for minotla dimage a2

[ulf kypke]

hi,
i recently got an used minolta dimage a2 on ebay-usa.
btw, i owned one dimage a1 years ago, but it got stolen. this "semi-like" slr cam series a1 and a2 was one of the best like slr-cameras on the consumer market.
only difference between a1 and a2 are the mega-pixel (5 and 8 mpx) and the a200 is ok, but not as good.

gphoto works with this camera quite well, but no capture image (and download) support is given.
may i should post the complete error output later. but there is on other way of remote capture for this cam.
this cam has a 3 pin special remote plug, for using a electric-cord with a release button. with some circuit, it would be possible to remote capture and download with gphoto.
gphoto is not able to delete a picture on this camera, only. also changing the capture traget option, from cf card to internal memory is not possible.

here are some output:

[32395.164056] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[32395.297660] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[32395.298582] usb 5-3: New USB device found, idVendor=132b, idProduct=0001
[32395.298590] usb 5-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[32395.298596] usb 5-3: Product: DIMAGE CAMERA
[32395.298601] usb 5-3: Manufacturer: KONICA MINOLTA

~/Desktop/gphoto2-2.4.7$ ./gphoto2/gphoto2  --summary
Camera summary:
Model: DiMAGE A2
  device version: 1.00
  serial number:  (null)
Vendor extension ID: 0x00000000
Vendor extension description: (null)

Capture Formats:
Display Formats: DPOF, MS Wave, JPEG, TIFF EP, JFIF, Unknown(b101), Unknown(b102)

Device Capabilities:
        File Download, No File Deletion, File Upload
        No Image Capture, No Open Capture, No vendor specific capture

Storage Devices Summary:
store_00010001:
        StorageDescription: None
        VolumeLabel: None
        Storage Type: Removable RAM (memory card)
        Filesystemtype: Digital Camera Layout (DCIM)
        Access Capability: Read-Write
        Maximum Capability: 1028161536 (980 MB)
        Free Space (Bytes): 4294934528 (4095 MB)
        Free Space (Images): -1
store_ffff0001:
        StorageDescription: None
        VolumeLabel: None
        Storage Type: Builtin RAM
        Filesystemtype: Generic Flat
        Access Capability: Read-Only
        Maximum Capability: 18446744073709551615 (4294967295 MB)
        Free Space (Bytes): 18446744073709551615 (4294967295 MB)
        Free Space (Images): -1

Device Property Summary:







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[Marcus Meissner-4]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:16:36PM +0100, ulf kypke wrote:

> hi,
> i recently got an used minolta dimage a2 on ebay-usa.
> btw, i owned one dimage a1 years ago, but it got stolen. this "semi-like"
> slr cam series a1 and a2 was one of the best like slr-cameras on the
> consumer market.
> only difference between a1 and a2 are the mega-pixel (5 and 8 mpx) and the
> a200 is ok, but not as good.
>
> gphoto works with this camera quite well, but no capture image (and
> download) support is given.
> may i should post the complete error output later. but there is on other way
> of remote capture for this cam.
> this cam has a 3 pin special remote plug, for using a electric-cord with a
> release button. with some circuit, it would be possible to remote capture
> and download with gphoto.
> gphoto is not able to delete a picture on this camera, only. also changing
> the capture traget option, from cf card to internal memory is not possible.
>
> here are some output:
>
> Device Capabilities:
>         File Download, No File Deletion, File Upload

                        ^^^^ no delete :/

>         No Image Capture, No Open Capture, No vendor specific capture

I think the only way is really over this remote plug, not over USB.

Ciao, Marcus

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