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digital shutter cable
SLR film cameras have a shooting button that can take a shutter release
cable. I haven't seen this on a digital camera. For production work like catalogs or yearbooks, you'll want to command the camera to take a picture and send it back to the computer immediately. This would be the digital equivalent of the cable. Very handy for repetitive shooting. Has anyone seen a combination of camera and Linux software that can do this? Thanks. |
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On 2007-12-16, Roland Latour wrote:
SLR film cameras have a shooting button that can take a shutter release cable. I haven't seen this on a digital camera. For production work like catalogs or yearbooks, you'll want to command the camera to take a picture and send it back to the computer immediately. This would be the digital equivalent of the cable. Very handy for repetitive shooting. Has anyone seen a combination of camera and Linux software that can do this? Thanks. I have seen 'cable release adaptors' for compact cameras that allow you to use a conventional cable release with a camera that has no cable release socket of its own. They generally take the form of an elastic band or clip or clamp that fits around the camera body and places a suitable socket over the shutter button. You will also of course need a tripod or other camera support - and not all point-and-shoot cameras have a standard tripod bush. I don't know of any point-and-shoot cameras that will function for taking photographs while connected to a computer via the USB or Firewire cable. But if you're serious about taking pictures for catalogues you won't want to use a point-and-shoot camera anyway, will you, nor be tethered to a computer while taking photographs? There are of course 'web cams' which pipe an image to the computer all the time - in fact that is /all/ they do - and you can capture a 'frame' from that to use as a snapshot. But I've never seen a web cam image that I'd consider good enough for a catalogue, although you might get away with it for passport-style 'portraits' if you can arrange for a neutral plain background and soft lighting. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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On 2007-12-18, ChrisM wrote:
In message , Whiskers Proclaimed from the tallest tower: Snip! ...But if you're serious about taking pictures for catalogues you won't want to use a point-and-shoot camera anyway, will you, ... Why not? A decent P&S camera could give perfectly adequate pictures for a catalogue. I suppose it depends on what you want the catalogue to tell prospective customers; if it's 'this lot don't spend much on their catalogue' then perhaps you'll get away with it. Commercial photographers don't spend thousands of pounds setting up studios and getting really good cameras and lenses and years gaining experience and building up a clientel, just for the heck of it; but an experienced skillful photographer might manage to get a picture from a point and shoot digital camera that would pass muster for a 'thumbnail' in a catalogue. (No, I'm not a pro). -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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"Roland Latour" wrote in message
... SLR film cameras have a shooting button that can take a shutter release cable. I haven't seen this on a digital camera. For production work like catalogs or yearbooks, you'll want to command the camera to take a picture and send it back to the computer immediately. This would be the digital equivalent of the cable. Very handy for repetitive shooting. Has anyone seen a combination of camera and Linux software that can do this? Thanks. Most Canon compact cameras come with remote capture software that allows direct transfer immediately after the picture is taken (and will also allow a live view while it's being taken), but very few if any have a remote release anymore. For the most part, the software is PC and Mac compatible - I'm not sure if Linux versions are available, but I doubt it. Mark |
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