{ SPAM 1 }::Re: [sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 IS NOW WORKING PARTIALLY - running gphoto2 version 2.1.6

[kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu]

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Marcus,

IIRC camlibs/polaroid is yours.

Theodore Kilgore
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Martin wrote:

> It appears to be at least talking with the camera now.

Great.

> I replaced the 2 AAA batteries in the camera and now it is being detected by 
> gphoto2 - cool stuff.
>

Ah, so. That was the problem, then? And all of us genius developers were 
sending you hunting for library dependencies and the ld.so configuration 
file, or was that part of the problem, too? Actually, I was wondering when 
the day comes that some distro gets the bright idea of leaving 
/usr/local/bin off the executable path, and/or leaves /usr/local/lib off 
the library path, on the grounds that "nobody" puts things in the place 
where, historically, _all_ locally installed libraries and executables are 
supposed to be placed. It may have happened ...

> But the actual files when I use Gimp to view them are very under exposed.
> Is there something else in gphoto2 that will increase the brightness in the 
> acquired pictures?

Well, yes and no. It would probably have something to do with the support 
library for the particular camera, though, and IIRC we had a camera which 
was unknown to us. And since this camera _seemed_ to resemble some other 
cameras which were already supported, someone (me) suggested to do some 
cut-and-paste in a certain support library and see if anything at all 
came out from the camera. Thus, the fact that you are actually getting 
photos out of the camera which actually look something like what you took 
a picture of is very good luck and means that there is a lot of work that 
we do not need to do.

> I don't think the camera is malfunctioning, but then again it maybe. I 
> haven't used it in a while, not sure.
> Thanks.
>
> Here is the output various gphoto2 outputs.
>
> [root at oldpc root]# /usr/local/bin/gphoto2 --auto-detect
> Model                          Port
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Clever CAM 360                 usb:
> Clever CAM 360                 usb:001,017
>
>
> [root at oldpc root]# /usr/local/bin/gphoto2 --abilities
> Abilities for camera             : Clever CAM 360
> Serial port support              : yes
> USB support                      : yes
> Capture choices                  :
>                                : Image
> Configuration support            : no
> Delete files on camera support   : yes
> File preview (thumbnail) support : yes
> File upload support              : no
>
>
> [root at oldpc root]# /usr/local/bin/gphoto2 --list-files
> There are 5 files in folder '/':
> #1     scope0001.ppm                 297 KB  352x288  image/x-portable-pixmap
> #2     scope0002.ppm                 297 KB  352x288  image/x-portable-pixmap
> #3     scope0003.ppm                 297 KB  352x288  image/x-portable-pixmap
> #4     scope0004.ppm                 297 KB  352x288  image/x-portable-pixmap
> #5     scope0005.ppm                 297 KB  352x288  image/x-portable-pixmap
>
>
> [root at oldpc root]# /usr/local/bin/gphoto2 --get-all-files
> Downloading 'scope0001.ppm' from folder '/'...
> Saving file as scope0001.ppm
> Downloading 'scope0002.ppm' from folder '/'...
> Saving file as scope0002.ppm
> Downloading 'scope0003.ppm' from folder '/'...
> Saving file as scope0003.ppm
> Downloading 'scope0004.ppm' from folder '/'...
> Saving file as scope0004.ppm
> Downloading 'scope0005.ppm' from folder '/'...
> Saving file as scope0005.ppm
>
>
>
>
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Nice writeup, thanks. Do we get to look at any pictures?

Theodore Kilgore