GPhotoCamera

A Python Wrapper around a very small subset of libgphoto2 via ctypes

Copyright (c) 2009 Charles Daniel

GPhotoCamera is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)

any later version.

GPhotoCamera is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with GPhotoCamera; see the file COPYING. If not, write to

the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,

Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Introduction

GPhotoCamera is a simple Python wrapper around a small subset of libgphoto2, in particular it is only useful for capturing live preview frames and actual images from a libgphoto2 compatible camera.

Note: As of the writing of this file gphoto2 was at version 2.4.8 and only really runs on Linux (we tested in Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04).

More information about gphoto can be found here: http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/

More information about ctypes can be found here: http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/tutorial.html

Please Note: I originally developed this for a school project where we had access to a Canon7D and this code is known to work well with it. Since then I haven't had access to any compatible cameras and haven't had the opportunity to verify this code still works for newer versions of Linux/libgphoto2.

Prerequisites

A Linux distro (tested on Ubuntu 10.04) with libgphoto2 installed (tested with libgphoto2.so.2). Python >= 2.6 (haven't tested on 3.0)

Example

cam = GPhotoCamera(); cam.capture_preview('preview.jpg'); cam.capture_image('full_image.jpg');