Linux photography

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gphoto2

cli

Get at least v2.4.9 for using all Canon features & remote shooting with 5Dmkii

gphoto2 --config allows to change many settings, e.g. the owner string
Remote capture:
- gphoto2 --get-config capturetarget
- gphoto2 --set-config capturetarget=sdram
- gphoto2 --get-config capture
- gphoto2 --set-config capture=on
- gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download
For Bulb mode:
- Switch dial to 'M'anual mode
- gphoto2 --set-config shutterspeed=bulb
- gphoto2 --set-config bulb=1 --wait-event=10s --set-config bulb=0 --wait-event-and-download=5s
Misc controls for remote capture: Image Format, ISO, WhiteBalance, Whitebalance Adjust, DriveMode, Picture Style, Bulb Mode, BracketMode, Aperture, ShutterSpeed, Autofocus (in LiveView mode), Manual Focus (in LiveView mode), Viewfinder

derivatives

gvfs-backends - userspace virtual filesystem - backends
- contains the gphoto2 backend
gphotofs - filesystem to mount digital cameras
libwine-gphoto2-unstable - Windows API implementation - camera module
- This package contains a TWAIN interface that allows Windows
kamera - digital camera support for KDE applications
gtkam - application for retrieving media from digital cameras
gtkam-gimp - gtkam gimp plugin to open digital camera pictures

Photo management applications

f-spot - personal photo management application
shotwell - digital photo organizer
digikam - digital photo management application for KDE
gthumb - an image viewer and browser
ansel1 - Horde photo management application
mapivi - Photo viewer and organizer with emphasis on IPTC fields

Data recovery

testdisk - Partition scanner and disk recovery tool
- => photorec
- Canon Raw picture (.crw)
- Canon catalog (.ctg)
- JPEG picture (.jpg)

EXIF

exif - command-line utility to show EXIF information in JPEG files
exifprobe - Read metadata from digital pictures
exiv2 - EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation tool
- Nice one, can copy/paste exif data with ex/in commands
exiftags - utility to read Exif tags from a digital camera JPEG file
metacam - extract EXIF information from digital camera files
- In addition to the standard EXIF fields, MetaCam also supports vendor-specific extensions from Nikon, Olympus, Canon and Casio.
jhead - manipulate the non-image part of Exif compliant JPEG files
pecomato - Picture-embedded contents manipulation tool

Rotate

renrot - Rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags
exiftran - transform digital camera jpeg images
- jpegtran

GPS

gpscorrelate-gui - correlates digital photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields (GUI)
gpsprune - visualize, edit, convert and prune GPS data

RAW

dcraw - decode raw digital camera images
- Supports the following models: Canon, Kodak, Olympus, Nikon, Fuji, Minolta and Sigma
gimp-dcraw - GIMP plug-in for loading RAW digital photos

HDR

exrtools - A collection of utilities for manipulating OpenEXR images
pfstools - command line HDR manipulation programs
qtpfsgui - graphical user interface providing a workflow for HDR imaging

Misc

jpegpixi - Remove hot spots from JPEG images with minimal quality loss
phatch - simple to use Photo Batch Processor - GUI

Old scripts

If you don't like having files named IMG_1234.JPG, you can try sth like this to rename the images _yyyy_mm_dd-xxx.jpg_

j=1;
for i in *.JPG;do
   exif.py $i 2>/dev/null |\
   gawk -v i=$i -v j=$j '
       /DateTime:/{
           match($0,/([0-9]+):([0-9]+):([0-9]+)/,a);
           system("mv "i" " sprintf(a[1] "_" a[2] "_" a[3] "-" "%03d" ".jpg",j))
       }';
   j=$((j+1));
done

See also option "mv" of command "exiv2", which does pretty much the same