Linux photography

Links

• Digital Camera Support for UNIX, Linux and BSD
• Canon PTP extensions
• Dave Coffin RAW Digital Photo Decoder
• Digital photography and Linux
• Java Panorama Viewer (PTviewer)

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

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

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