Re: bulb cannot work

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 07:27:00AM -0700, XYang wrote:
> Marcus Meissner-4 wrote
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 08:39:54AM -0700, XYang wrote:
> >> <http://gphoto-software.10949.n7.nabble.com/file/n16661/error1.png> 
> >> 
> >> This is what happened when I try the code
> >> 
> >> /gphoto2 --set-config shutterspeed=bulb/
> >> 
> >> Can u find what's wrong with it?
> >> 
> >> Thank u,
> >> Xu
> >> 
> >> (P.S. I tried the second code anyway:
> >> 
> >> /gphoto2 --set-config eosremoterelease=Immediate --wait-event=30s
> >> 
> >> and the error messages are like this:
> >> <http://gphoto-software.10949.n7.nabble.com/file/n16661/error2.png> 
> >> 
> >> <http://gphoto-software.10949.n7.nabble.com/file/n16661/error3.png> 
> >> 
> >> don't know if it helps)
> > 
> > Hmm. The strings might be translated.
> > 
> > Also which version do you use?   gphoto2 --version  ? 
> > 
> > gphto2 --get-config shutterspeed 
> > 
> > should list "bulb" as option.
> > 
> > gphoto2 --get-config eosremoterelease  
> > 
> > will list the available shutter states.
> > 
> > Ciao, Marcus
> > 
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> My version of gphoto2:
> <http://gphoto-software.10949.n7.nabble.com/file/n16663/version.png> 
> 
> And yes, "bulb" is an option of shutter speed:
> <http://gphoto-software.10949.n7.nabble.com/file/n16663/get_shutterspeed.png> 
> 
> Tried gphoto2 --set-config-index shutterspeed=0, the error still happens.
> 
> And shutter stats as follow:
> <http://gphoto-software.10949.n7.nabble.com/file/n16663/eosremoterelease.png> 
> 
> So...Everything seem to be right except it doesn't work~?

Well, 2.4.13 libgphoto2 is quite a number of years old, from 2011.

We have 2017.

So upgrade to libgphoto2 to 2.5.13 and gphoto2 to 2.5.11, then try again.

Ciao, Marcus

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