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The gphoto2 commandline tool for accessing and controlling digital cameras.
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Save on camera SD card with Sony a7RII #227

Open RomainLucchesi opened 5 years ago

RomainLucchesi commented 5 years ago

Hello, Thanks for this very nice project, it would be perfect to create complex timelapses that other programs or remote don't allow.

I am thinking to the solar eclipse on July 2nd, I am desperately searching for a solution to take a complex sequence : Starting with a double ~30s interval timelapse during the partial eclipse (sun exposed and landscape exposed), then a fast burst shot for the contact, then several long exposure photos with different exposure times during totality, and again burst shots, timelapse...

But unfortunately the actual limitation on Sony cameras doesn't allow this, the fastest I can take photos with my A7RII and Raspberry pi Zero W is about ~8 seconds because of the downloading time.

I think that I read all the old topics about it, but since the last few months, is there any new solution to save the pictures on the camera SD card by chance?

Thank you

Patrick-Lascombe commented 5 years ago

Setting the config /main/settings/capturetarget to 1, is working for me and should do the trick

msmeissn commented 5 years ago

The remote capture on Sony Alpha does not allow this to my knowledge.

Other cameras like Nikon or Canon do, but as far as I know, Sony not.