Re: *** Error *** , Packet was rejected by camera. Please contact <[email protected]>.

Dear Marcus,

    sorry for bothering you again! I only wanted to ask whether my mail 
from July 12 below has reached you!

Thanks, best regards, Dieter

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Dieter Blaas,
Max Perutz Laboratories
Medical University of Vienna,
Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC),
Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3,
A-1030 Vienna, Austria,
Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630,
Mobile: 0043 699 1942 1659
e-mail: [email protected]
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On 12.07.2021 15:30, Dieter Blaas wrote:
> Dear Marcus,
>
>     referring to my last mail I finally came back from vacations and 
> run the command: "env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug 
> --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt --capture-image"
>
> The output is attached. Please note that it is an Olympus C-40Zoom and 
> not, as reported by gphoto2, an Olympus C2040-Z. As I wrote already, 
> changing the memory card for several other ones did not help and a new 
> one is not available since long! It would be great if you found a way 
> of getting it to run!
>
> Thanks a lot, best regards, Dieter
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dieter Blaas,
> Max Perutz Laboratories
> Medical University of Vienna,
> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC),
> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3,
> A-1030 Vienna, Austria,
> Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630,
> Mobile: 0043 699 1942 1659
> e-mail: [email protected]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On 22.06.2021 21:40, Dieter Blaas wrote:
>> Hi Marcus,
>>
>>   thank you so much for the quick answer! I am afraid that this does 
>> not help: I already tried replacing the card by another one (they are 
>> very old and not available since long) but without avail. I am afraid 
>> that something happened to the camera. I shall be on vacations for 
>> about 2 weeks but shall come back to you with a debuglogfile. I find 
>> it quite strange that all seems to work except from capturing a photo!
>>
>> Best. Dieter
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dieter Blaas,
>> Max Perutz Labora fdatories
>> Medical University of Vienna,
>> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC),
>> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3,
>> A-1030 Vienna, Austria,
>> Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630,
>> Mobile: 0043 699 1942 1659
>> e-mail: [email protected]
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> On 22.06.2021 17:20, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:36:29AM +0200, Dieter Blaas wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>      I installed gphoto2 from the repository under Ubuntu-Mate 
>>>> 20.04 and
>>>> tried controlling an old Olympus C-40Z connected to a power supply. 
>>>> I got
>>>> the following:
>>>>
>>>> 1) gphoto2 --list-config
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/resolution
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/shutter
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/aperture
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/color
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/flash
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/whitebalance
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/focus-mode
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/focus-pos
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/exp
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/exp-meter
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/zoom
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/dzoom
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Picture Settings/iso
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Camera Settings/date-time
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Camera Settings/lcd-mode
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Camera Settings/lcd-brightness
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Camera Settings/lcd-auto-shutoff
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Camera Settings/camera-power-save
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Camera Settings/host-power-save
>>>> /Camera Configuration/Camera Settings/timefmt
>>>>
>>>> 2) gphoto2 --summary
>>>> Camera summary:
>>>> Camera Model: SX553
>>>> Manufacturer: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD.
>>>> Camera ID: SAUNA
>>>> Serial Number: 000203123086
>>>> Software Rev.: v553p-73
>>>> Frames Taken: 0
>>>> Frames Left: 0
>>>> Battery Life: 0
>>>> Memory Left: 0 bytes
>>>> Date: Thu Jan  1 00:59:59 1970
>>>>
>>>> 3) gphoto2 --capture-preview ------- WORKS
>>>>
>>>> 4) gphoto2 --capture-movie---------  WORKS
>>>>
>>>> 5) However, when evoking gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download or just
>>>> gphoto2 --capture-image
>>>>
>>>> I get:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *** Error ***
>>>> Packet was rejected by camera. Please contact
>>>> <[email protected]>.
>>>> ERROR: Could not capture image.
>>>> ERROR: Could not capture.
>>>>
>>>> What is wrong? So far I used Sabsik's Cam2Com running under Windows 
>>>> XP to
>>>> control three identical cameras but wanted to finally migrate to 
>>>> Linux.
>>>> There is a problem with the memory card as the camera says that it 
>>>> is full
>>>> and it refuses to format it. With Cam2Com I, therefore, used direct 
>>>> download
>>>> without storing the image on the memory card. Is there a way of 
>>>> doing so
>>>> under gphoto2 as well? Maybe the error is related to the defective 
>>>> internal
>>>> storage. I must say that I have used a number of the same type of 
>>>> camera
>>>> over the years as all finally ended with one or another defect that 
>>>> made
>>>> them useless. But this one still worked!
>>> Currently our capture goes via card...
>>>
>>> Can you not try to buy another card as quick workaround?
>>>
>>> Also a debuglogfile might be useful, but it seems card related.
>>>
>>> ciao, Marcus


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