Re: Small problem

I'm not the right person to complain to so I'm ccing the list.
Probably should be a different subject line.

It should work or it should get taken off the list.  I've never seen
an A900.  My little used Canon S70 has a lens cover, but you manually
slide the lens cover open and that's the power switch.  Then it
triggers fine,  There's a different button on the back to turn it on
for just looking at pictures in memory.  You can't trigger it until
after you open the lens cover to the side, there's no motor that
drives it.

If it tries to ooen it sounds stuck like some dirt got in there maybe.
One thing I've read about is: point the camera down into a wand on a
vacuum cleaner that's running and manually open and close the lens
cover a few times.  You're trying to suck out the crumb or whatever
that's making it stick.  Didn't work on the only camera I tried it on.
Maybe I've already mentioned this.

On 2/10/20, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Boy, Alan.  I never could get my Nikon A900 to capture an image by
> command.  It would try, but the lens cover never, ever, not once, opened
> up.*
>
> *David*
>
> *
> *
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> *
> *
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> On 2/10/20 7:31 PM, Alan Corey wrote:
>> I'd get the file access and directory scanning out of the equation at
>> least as a test.  Try something like
>> gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download
>>
>> Does it depend on the storage media?  That script should work the same
>> way with any camera that Gphoto can trigger, try a different one.  My
>> Nikon D5200 and Canon S70 work interchangeably, even with a C program
>> written using libgphoto2.  So this locked up camera is capable of
>> running a script?  That seems odd.  By "locked up" you mean it won't
>> take more pictures?
>>
>> Why do you shoot a bunch and let them sit there?  Oh, maybe it does a
>> directory scan at the start and suddenly having new files it hasn't
>> seen (taken during the download) throws it for a loop.  It's doing one
>> thing, doesn't expect you to be doing something else meanwhile.  Seems
>> like it almost could be considered a bug but you're doing something
>> that was never expected.  If you don't take more pictures in the 30
>> seconds then it finishes?  Is there a large number (over 100) of
>> photos on the card?  Just the time to index and sort them could be
>> significant.
>>
>> Just making guesses really
>>
>>
>> On 2/10/20, streetsafari0 via Gphoto-user
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Afternoon,
>>>
>>> I want to run a little script that downloads photographs every 30
>>> seconds
>>> but running into a little problem.
>>>
>>> If the camera takes more photos during the download, the camera (Canon
>>> 7D2)
>>> locks up when the download finishes. It unlocks when the script is run
>>> again and downloads the next images.
>>>
>>> Anyone any ideas? It's a high throughput set up so it cannot hang the
>>> camera, and I don't want to run the script constantly.
>>>
>>> Command is simply:  gphoto2 --get-all-files --new
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> J
>>>
>>
>


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