Comments on: Control your camera remotely with a DS

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:44:03 +0000

I have found that the settings in Photomatix are quite useful in fixing any issues with moving objects, along with some Photoshop touchups, they come out pretty well. Unfortunately, I have been a little lacking in the “Upload to my website” category of life…. Perhaps tonight, a Red Bull and an all nighter of HTML… The girlfriend is not going to be happy tomorrow…

By: robocat

robocat — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:12:47 +0000

@nubie
For Canon point & shoot cameras, you can use CHDK (http://chdk.wikia.com/) to upgrade them to do HDR bracketing and timelapse photography plus more. CHDK is a firmware hack that boots off the SD card (no change to firmware flash is done).

Unfortunately if you have an DSLR then the porting is still in progress (looks like 40D will be first to be ported) – for more info see
http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php/board,33.0.html

You can hack your own features onto your camera by building it yourself (gcc) or writing your own scripts (using either lua, or a retarded basic).

It is a great community of developers hacking on a bunch of different features for their cameras!

By: BiOzZ

BiOzZ — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:51:50 +0000

@Jesse
my problem is both that when i change the exposure it moves the camera a bit and that i need to take 5 shots adjusting the exposure in each one manually takes awhile and things like clouds dear and debris move fast if wind picks up and i need all of the objects to be all the same in every photo so i need it done in less than a second

By: nubie

nubie — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:42:45 +0000

This might be useful if it would support time-lapse on a point and shoot (aka something you would leave outdoors remotely and doesn’t have time lapse).

Time lapse is important for many things, excellent hack (although I would rather see support on a GBA because I am sure it has the power to do it :P )

By: Dave Van den Eynde

Dave Van den Eynde — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:07:03 +0000

From the looks of it, the DS just seems like an overweight wired remote. It’s connected to the Canon’s N3 plug, which is only good for anything you can do with the shutter button.

In order to do “tethered shooting” you’d have to connect to the USB port of the camera and either use Canon’s protocols for remote shooting or a PTP compatible application like gphoto on Linux.

The only thing cooler about this than using a simple DIY wired trigger is that you can have it time your shots and, as you mention, a possible audio trigger in the future.

It would be cool if someone came up with a remote capture solution for, say, a PDA with USB host functionality or an UMPC.

Dave

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:44:30 +0000

@biozz

You don’t need a fast succession of shots for HDR, you need to bracket your exposures. AFAIK the D40 doesn’t have AEB(odd), so you’d need to either bracket yourself, which is easy, or put something together that will bracket for you.

By: generic

generic — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:16:45 +0000

I have the same camera it rocks and I would love something like this

By: biozz

biozz — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:37:32 +0000

does any one know haw to control a Nikon camera via usb like in “Camera Control” that’s open source? i want to make an app that can take 5 exposures as fast as it can for taking HDR photos
(Nikon D40)
email me at hvhaxor@gmail.com if you have any info
THANK YOU