Remote Control for A60 etc

Has anyone ever seen a remote control device for the Canon A60/A70/A80
etc? I'm thinking of a small black box that would plug into the
camera's usb port and let you snap a picture with a remote push button.
Plans for a DIY project using a single chip microprocessor would be great.

Angus

In article 7HwUc.133413$J06.130554@pd7tw2no, angusc
wrote:

Has anyone ever seen a remote control device for the Canon A60/A70/A80
etc? I'm thinking of a small black box that would plug into the
camera's usb port and let you snap a picture with a remote push button.
Plans for a DIY project using a single chip microprocessor would be great.

Angus


Hi Angus,

There is no remote control fr the camera.
But I like your idea. It is possible to control the camera over USB. I
had a Canon A70, and a small software tool that could power up and down
the camera, and take a picture. Why would there not be a small box that
could do just that??

As the protocol that does this is more or less universal (it is a set of
commands that each camera supports a part of) this remote control would
be kind of universal!!

Good idea, now all you have to do is find a brilliant technical wizkid
to build it ;-)

--

Wouter F. Wessels
Gouda, the Netherlands
http://www.wwessels.cistron.nl/picofday.shtml

In article 7HwUc.133413$J06.130554@pd7tw2no, angusc
wrote:

Has anyone ever seen a remote control device for the Canon A60/A70/A80
etc? I'm thinking of a small black box that would plug into the
camera's usb port and let you snap a picture with a remote push button.
Plans for a DIY project using a single chip microprocessor would be great.

Angus


Hi Angus,

There is no remote control fr the camera.
But I like your idea. It is possible to control the camera over USB. I
had a Canon A70, and a small software tool that could power up and down
the camera, and take a picture. Why would there not be a small box that
could do just that??

As the protocol that does this is more or less universal (it is a set of
commands that each camera supports a part of) this remote control would
be kind of universal!!

Good idea, now all you have to do is find a brilliant technical wizkid
to build it ;-)

--

Wouter F. Wessels
Gouda, the Netherlands
http://www.wwessels.cistron.nl/picofday.shtml

Wouter Wessels writes:

In article 7HwUc.133413$J06.130554@pd7tw2no, angusc
wrote:

Has anyone ever seen a remote control device for the Canon A60/A70/A80
etc? I'm thinking of a small black box that would plug into the
camera's usb port and let you snap a picture with a remote push button.
Plans for a DIY project using a single chip microprocessor would be great.

Angus


Hi Angus,

There is no remote control fr the camera.
But I like your idea. It is possible to control the camera over USB. I
had a Canon A70, and a small software tool that could power up and down
the camera, and take a picture. Why would there not be a small box that
could do just that??

As the protocol that does this is more or less universal (it is a set of
commands that each camera supports a part of) this remote control would
be kind of universal!!

Good idea, now all you have to do is find a brilliant technical wizkid
to build it ;-)

Note, the open source gphoto2 that runs on Linux systems supports controling
the A60 (at least according to gphoto2 --list-cameras on my Fedora Linux
system), so if you wanted source that shows the control stream, you can go
there (presumably it is part of the standard PTP protocol).

--
Michael Meissner
email:
http://www.the-meissners.org

Wouter Wessels writes:

In article 7HwUc.133413$J06.130554@pd7tw2no, angusc
wrote:

Has anyone ever seen a remote control device for the Canon A60/A70/A80
etc? I'm thinking of a small black box that would plug into the
camera's usb port and let you snap a picture with a remote push button.
Plans for a DIY project using a single chip microprocessor would be great.

Angus


Hi Angus,

There is no remote control fr the camera.
But I like your idea. It is possible to control the camera over USB. I
had a Canon A70, and a small software tool that could power up and down
the camera, and take a picture. Why would there not be a small box that
could do just that??

As the protocol that does this is more or less universal (it is a set of
commands that each camera supports a part of) this remote control would
be kind of universal!!

Good idea, now all you have to do is find a brilliant technical wizkid
to build it ;-)

Note, the open source gphoto2 that runs on Linux systems supports controling
the A60 (at least according to gphoto2 --list-cameras on my Fedora Linux
system), so if you wanted source that shows the control stream, you can go
there (presumably it is part of the standard PTP protocol).

--
Michael Meissner
email:
http://www.the-meissners.org