Re: 20 sony nex3 hacked / gphoto compatibility

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 02:10:27PM -0700, zzzanzzzibar wrote:
> Dear community, 
> 
> Have 20 sony nex3 camera which have been physically hacked to be synch
> together.
> the bullet time system work well (exemples
> http://lightisnotflat.tumblr.com/)
> 
> the problem is that I take the photography on the sd cards and cameras are
> not linked to computer...
> I let you imagine how time consuming is the "after shoot" and the difficulty
> for the creation by seeing the moving result hours after (if it not days
> ...)
> 
> I discover gphoto few days ago and I have some questions. (I am a newbie,
> had even to install xcode on my mac ...)- Maybe someone here can help me.
> 
> the Nex3 is an old cam and cannot be triggered by gphoto but when I ask for
> a "--summary", it is look like possible to upload and download files ...
> 
> /Camera summary:                                                                
> Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
> Model: Sony Digital Still Camera
>   Version: (null)
> 
> Capture Formats: 
> Display Formats: Script, JPEG
> 
> Device Capabilities:
> 	File Download, No File Deletion, File Upload
> 	No Image Capture, No Open Capture, No vendor specific capture/
> 
> ... which give me hope to automatize my files importation, and minimise the
> time between the shoot and the result.
> 
> I really don't know where to go after this step 
>  someone here to help me to make this bullet time system easier to use ?

I am not sure what you need.

"gphoto2 -P" will download all files from the camera.

But this is probably most of it can do.

Ciao, Marcus

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