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The gphoto2 commandline tool for accessing and controlling digital cameras.
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Lumix S5 Bulb mode not working #564

Open RoP09 opened 1 year ago

RoP09 commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug

I am using Gphoto as provided by the latest version of Astroberry 2.0.5 together with the Lumix S5. It seems that it is not possible to set exposures longer than 60 seconds, no matter what value is set here.

If camera is set to BULB mode, then expore aborts after ~30 seconds (no error thrown, timer expires until the set time is reached)

Settings force bulb mode true or false in INDI control panel has no effect.

Name the camera Panasonic Lumix S5

libgphoto2 and gphoto2 version indi_gphoto_ccd 3.2 (not sure how to get the related gphoto version from there)

To Reproduce Take photo with exposure longer than 60 seconds

RoP09 commented 1 year ago

So just to be clearer hopefully: a) Camera set to any shutter speed: -> Shutter speed can be varied up to 60 seconds b) Camera set to B mode (and shutter speed e.g. also set to 60 seconds - or longer): -> shutter is executed, but already stops after ~30 seconds, regardless of the shutter speed set. Countdown timer in Ekos/INDI continues until the set exposure time has elapsed and photo is downloaded successfully, but with wrong exposure time).

Force bulb true or false has no effect it seems.

Additionally, it seems sometimes the operation aborts also when using faster shutter speeds (e.g. setting a 10 second exposure then somtimes it stops alerady after 3-4 seconds instead of the 10 seconds).

Could that be related to any additional camera settings (like shutter delay)?

Auto-noise reduction is turned OFF in camera.

flolinemedia commented 1 year ago

I didn't know the s5 was supported at all. I tried and couldn't get any image capture to happen and just thought they weren't supported yet. I have a gh6 and gh5s going right now taking timelapse images for a construction project and they are working great.

msmeissn commented 1 year ago

do you access it over wlan or usb? can you post --summary and --list-all-config output?

msmeissn commented 1 year ago

it might be a camera side limitation. also usually bulb mode needs to be triggered differently from regular capture

RoP09 commented 1 year ago

do you access it over wlan or usb? can you post --summary and --list-all-config output?

Using USB via Stellarmate / Ekos

RoP09 commented 1 year ago

it might be a camera side limitation. also usually bulb mode needs to be triggered differently from regular capture

How can I do that via Ekos? Sorry but i Just started with that indi stuff...