Re: gPhoto2 - Bulb Capture With Shutter Open and Close Separately

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2020 09:08:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:34:54AM +0600, Nazmus Sakib wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am using 6D for testing Bulb Capture. It works great with Bulb Time
> defined in "wait-event".
> 
> gphoto2 --set-config eosremoterelease= "PressFull" --wait-event=30s
> --set-config eosremoterelease="Release Full"
> 
> But I wanted to Open and Close the Shutter separately. Like with one
> command Start Bulb capture and after x-sec I'll execute another command to
> Close Bulb capture.
> 
> Is it possible anyhow?

Currently no... but a good idea ... 

I am adding code to gphoto2 git that will end a --wait-event  when you send
SIGUSR2 to the gphoto2 process.

Ciao, Marcus