HDR photography with Raspberry Pi

UPDATE: See my new blog post where I rewrote the code in Perl and added a trigger for the Pi.

I bought my Nikon D40 in 2006. The D40 is my first and only DSLR camera and I've loved using it every day that I've had it. At the time, it was Nikon's entry-level DSLR and it suited my budget and photography skills. Over the last 6 years that I've owned the device my photography skills have improved but not my budget 1. I’d had to make do with the limitations of the D40 — 6-megapixel DX sensor, 200-3200 ISO range, no auto-bracketing — but the lack of auto-bracketing has been the most limiting.

I love making high dynamic range (HDR) 2 photographs. I love how my photographs come alive with the expanded range offered by HDR. HDR photography involves taking multiple photographs at varying exposure levels and combining the photos into a single final image. HDR photography requires a good tripod and a camera that can shoot bracketed photos. Having a camera body with auto-bracketing makes this easy. On the D40 I can manually adjust the exposure values (EV) between each capture but I risk moving the camera. A slight movement can make aligning the images much harder.

I’ve researched various solutions for my problem. I used a Mac app, Sofortbild, to tether my D40 to my MacBook via USB. Sofortbild provides complete remote control of a Nikon DSLR camera — like shutter speed, aperture, exposure, white balance, iso, image format — and automatically transfers captures images to the Mac hard drive. It can also auto-import images into iPhoto, Aperture or Adobe Lightroom. However, I was interested in its use for HDR photography.

Perform bracketing with an arbitrary number of exposure values by defining the minimum and maximum shutter speed and step. After bracketing high dynamic range images can automatically be calculated including auto image alignment and saved in all major high dynamic range image file formats. Filenames will get the same index including incrementing suffix for easier workflows with external high dynamic range applications.

Sofortbild is easy to use and fully functional but … the setup wasn’t only practical in a studio or controlled set. I just didn’t see myself lugging a laptop, tripod, camera, and lenses around. With a MacBook Air, maybe. A 7 lb MacBook. No. I wanted something lighter.

I started researching options to control the brackets using my iPhone. Searching the web I found a project called DSLR.bot. The creator wrote an iPhone/iPad (iOS) app that could trigger an IR LED to send the correct binary sequence to trigger the IR on the Nikon. The creator sells a pre-built IR remote but I built one myself. However, the author of the app limited the fastest shutter speed to 310 second. This was too slow for my daylight HDR. Most of my test shots were completely blown out in the highlights.

My D40 auto-bracketing kit.

When the Raspberry Pi single-board computer was announced I could immediately see the usefulness of such a small. I ordered one and four months later I could start working on my first project. I planned to use the Raspberry Pi to control my Nikon via USB and capture bracketed images.

After much research and trial and error, I think I have a working solution.

![](https://islandinthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/IMG_2830-960x960.jpg) My D40 auto-bracketing kit.

What you’ll need

Installing Raspbian “wheezy” Linux on an SD card

I used an OS X user account that has administrator privileges to install Raspbian “wheezy” Linux onto a 4GB SD card. The card was mounted on my OS X 10.8 iMac via a Moshi card reader. I followed the instruction on the Wiki but with some small tweaks. A little trial and error and I had a working RPi.

My disk showed up as follows:

/dev/disk4s1 3.7Gi 722Mi 3.0Gi 20% 0 0 100% /Volumes/NIKON D80

The Wiki did not make it clear that I needed to issue the commands from an account with system administrator privileges and that the diskutil commands must be executed using sudo. I was frustrated running these commands until I understood that little detail.

It is necessary to unmount the partition so that you will be allowed to overwrite the disc:

iMac-2:~ khurt$ sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk4s1

Using the device name of the partition, in my case /dev/disk4s1, I got the raw device name for the entire disc, by omitting the last "s1" and replacing "disc" with "rdisk”. So my raw device name was /dev/rdisk4.

In the terminal I wrote the image to the card with this command, using the raw disc device name from above.

iMac-2:~ khurt$ sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/rdisk4

Once complete, I unmounted the SD card and inserted it into the slot on my Raspberry Pi. I hooked up the Raspberry Pi to my home network via my AirPort Express via an Ethernet cable. My RPi was powered by a USB charger I picked up from Radio Shack. I planned to get the device controlling my camera with a script and power the device from the Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation battery/a>.

gPhoto2

Since I planned to use the RPi to control my Nikon D40 for exposure bracketing of images for HDR photography, I needed software to send Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) commands to my Nikon. My research led me to a library, gPhoto2, written for this purpose.

gPhoto2 is an open-source, freely distributable suite of digital camera software designed for Unix-like systems. This comprehensive package is compatible with a broad spectrum of UNIX-like operating environments, encompassing Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, and others.

Fortunately, someone had ported gPhoto2 to Raspian “wheezy”. My first order of business was to download and install the library.

I used the following command:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install gphoto2` `The following new packaged were installed (successfully): gphoto2 libcdk5 libexif12 libgd2-xpm libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-l10n libgphoto2-port0 libltdl71

Once gPhoto2 was installed, I tested to ensure things worked. I plugged my Nikon D40 into the RPi via a mini-USB to USB cable and ran the following command:


pi@raspberrypi ~ $ gphoto2 --auto-detect Model Port ---------------------------------------------------------- Nikon DSC D40 (PTP mode) usb:001,006

Capturing images

I tested a few commands to set ISO, exposure value (EV) and capture images. However, I needed a way to issue commands to capture five successive images at different exposure values, and I had no way to trigger. After much trial and error, I finally figured out the right combination of gPhoto2 and bash script commands to control the D40 when the camera is turned on.

#this command will set the exposure compensation vale to zero
--set-config /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation 0

#this commands sets the camera to save images to the SD card
--set-config /main/settings/capturetarget=1

#this command will capture an image
—capture-image

#this command will set the ISO on the D40 to 200
--set-config /main/imgsettings/iso=0

I wanted a script that would wait until the camera was running, take five photos, and then return to waiting. I looked for ways to trigger the script when the camera shutter button was pressed but could not find a way. The best I could do was wait until the camera was turned on, then capture the images and exit.

I used the following code to keep the script waiting until the camera is turned on.

# Wait for camera to be turned on
# by checking USB
DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,///')
while [ -z ${DEVICE} ]
    do
    sleep 1
    DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,///')
done

Once the RPi has detected the camera has been turned on I could initialize the camera and capture images.

echo "Camera has been turned on"
# Configure camera for gphoto2 access and later capture:
# NOTE: I'm not sure this is needed.

gphoto2 --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=0 
--capture-image-and-download 
--filename junk.jpg 
--force-overwrite

rm -f junk.jpg

# Assumes camera is in Aperture Priority mode
# Sets ISO to 200 and capture target to SD card
# see config.txt for other options

# Capture 5 images at EV 0,-2,-4,2,4
echo "Capturing five images"
gphoto2 --set-config /main/imgsettings/iso=0 
    --set-config /main/settings/capturetarget=1 
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=0 
    --capture-image 
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-2000 
    --capture-image 
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-4000 
    --capture-image 
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=2000 
    --capture-image 
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=4000 
    --capture-image

The script is executed by the pi user crontab every minute. The challenge was that I wanted the script to run, capture five images, and stop until the user was ready to capture another set. Remember, I could not trigger the script with a camera event. But I also wanted to ensure that the script would launch multiple copies of itself within the time it took to capture the images. I set a status flag using a file to indicate when it was already running to the script. I used the useful bits of a script written by Jonathan Franzone

# ------------------------------------------------------------
# Setup Environment
# ------------------------------------------------------------

PDIR=${0%`basename $0`}
LCK_FILE=`basename $0`.lck

# ------------------------------------------------------------
# Am I Running
# ------------------------------------------------------------

if [ -f "${LCK_FILE}" ]; then

    # The file exists so read the PID
    # to see if it is still running
    MYPID=`head -n 1 "${LCK_FILE}"`

    TEST_RUNNING=`ps -p ${MYPID} | grep ${MYPID}`

    if [ -z "${TEST_RUNNING}" ]; then
        # The process is not running
        # Echo current PID into lock file
        echo "Not running"
        echo $ > "${LCK_FILE}"
    else
        echo "`basename $0` is already running [${MYPID}]"
        exit 0
    fi
else
    echo "Not running"
    echo $ > "${LCK_FILE}"
fi

Somewhere in the script, after I’ve captured my images, I could put this.

# ------------------------------------------------------------
# Cleanup
# ------------------------------------------------------------

rm -f "${LCK_FILE}"

Putting it all together

Putting the thing together3 I have a complete script for capturing five images seconds after the D40 is turned on.


# hdr.sh # # # Created by Khürt L. Williams on 8/21/12. # Description: Script for executing gPhoto2 commands to record 5 bracketed images # Portions are from a script written by Jonathan Franzone: http://www.franzone.com/2007/09/23/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running/ # ------------------------------------------------------------ # Setup Environment # ------------------------------------------------------------ PDIR=${0%`basename $0`} LCK_FILE=`basename $0`.lck # ------------------------------------------------------------ # Am I Running # ------------------------------------------------------------ if [ -f "${LCK_FILE}" ]; then # The file exists so read the PID # to see if it is still running MYPID=`head -n 1 "${LCK_FILE}"` TEST_RUNNING=`ps -p ${MYPID} | grep ${MYPID}` if [ -z "${TEST_RUNNING}" ]; then # The process is not running # Echo current PID into lock file echo "Not running" echo $ > "${LCK_FILE}" else echo "`basename $0` is already running [${MYPID}]" exit 0 fi else echo "Not running" echo $ > "${LCK_FILE}" fi # ------------------------------------------------------------ # Image capture # ------------------------------------------------------------ # Wait for camera to be turned on # by checking USB DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,///') while [ -z ${DEVICE} ] do sleep 1 DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,///') done echo "Camera has been turned on" # Configure camera for gphoto2 access and later capture: # NOTE: I'm not sure this is needed. gphoto2 --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=0 --capture-image-and-download --filename junk.jpg --force-overwrite rm -f junk.jpg # Assumes camera is in Aperture Priority mode # Sets ISO to 200 and capture target to SD card # see config.txt for other options # Capture 5 images at EV 0,-2,-4,2,4 echo "Capturing five images" gphoto2 --set-config /main/imgsettings/iso=0 --set-config /main/settings/capturetarget=1 --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=0 --capture-image --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-2000 --capture-image --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-4000 --capture-image --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=2000 --capture-image --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=4000 --capture-image # Wait for camera to be turned off # by checking the USB DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,///') while [ ${DEVICE} ] do echo "Turn off the camera" sleep 5 DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,///') done # ------------------------------------------------------------ # Cleanup # ------------------------------------------------------------ rm -f "${LCK_FILE}" # ------------------------------------------------------------ # Done # ------------------------------------------------------------ exit 0

Next steps

My solution is useful, but I’m not happy about the script and how the camera operates. Ideally, I would like a way to trigger the captures by detecting the depression of the shutter button on the D40 or via a push button connected to the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi. The script could then be a simple loop that waits for a trigger event, captures five images, and then goes back to waiting.

I also want to encase the Raspberry Pi and cables inside a compact exposure. Currently, a rubber band holds the package together. I ordered the PiBox from Adafruit, which should work nicely. Adafruit has a wide assortment of products designed for the Raspberry Pi.


  1. I’ve budgeted for a lens - Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 - and a studio lighting kit - AlienBees 800 - but not a new body. 
  2. I use Adobe Lightroom plug-ins Photomatix Pro app and HDR Efex Pro app
  3. You can download the script from my public Dropbox folder. 

Author: Khürt Williams

A human who works in information security and enjoys photography, Formula 1 and craft ale. #nobridge

75 thoughts on “HDR photography with Raspberry Pi”

  1. This is great 🙂 One question I had, can you manually set picture settings (such as white balance, ISO, shutter speed, etc) on the camera itself and not through the script, and they persist?
    I have a use for this, but I'd like to set those settings on the camera itself and not programmatically.

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  3. @khurtwilliams

    I just found your article, very cool.. 

    BTW I was wondering:

    " Ideally, I would like a way to trigger the captures either via detecting the depression of the shutter button on the D40 or via a push button connected to the GPIO on the http://www.raspberrypi.org/."

    Did you figure that part out?  I worked out a way to do from my phone. (two years later haha).

  4. I'm almost ready with an update to the project. I'm rewriting the script in Perl and I think I may have found a way to deal with the USB reset issue and also trigger the capture using the shutter release. The rewrite is based on suggestion from a number of the comments.

    1. Yeap, I just read some solution on usbreset. But for that there are 2 disadvantages:

      1) using the usbreset can make it to be able to run the second command for sure, but the lag time to re-trigger the shutter is rather to long in some case. I use a for loop to reset usb after a shutter trigger, it takes a bit time.

      2) about the limitation on using usbreset is, we have to specify the bus and port number (e.g. /dev/bus/usb/001/00X), and the variable "X" will add 1 for each time we plug and unplug, hard to hard-code it in my shell script. That would be nice if usbreset would run based on the device name (human readable), rather then an incremental number.

  5. Hi Khürt,

    Really cool on your guide and I try it on my D3s.
    I use your code but failed to capture more than one shot. Yes, it can capture one shot but no another.

    After taking the junk shot, it is OK, but when it try to take the "real" shot, it will prompt:

    *** Error ***
    PTP I/O error

    *** Error ***
    An error occurred in the io-library ('Unspecified error'): No error description available

    After that, only a few commands can be done (e.g. --auto-detect) but no longer can take any shot.

    It resume normal when I switch the camera on and off, but can only take one shot too.

    Do you experienced it?

    1. Sometimes gPhoto is unable to reset the USB port on the Raspberry Pi. I've found that the latest built of Wheezy and gPhoto2 is more stable. I've also started using a utility to reset the USB port before starting a capture series. I'm working on an update to the script that I think will address these issues.

  6. Thank you for this great idea! Based on the suggestion about the wait-event parameter I played a little round and found a solution with capture-tethered and the hook scripts. As a result I take a picture with the camera and the raspberry pi takes the other 4 pictures afterwards.
    For anyone who is interested, I used the above setup and modified following scripts:
    /etc/rc.local added the line
    /usr/local/bin/HDR.sh &

    The file /usr/local/bin/HDR.sh:

    !/bin/sh

    loop forever

    cd /tmp
    while [ true ]
    do

    Wait for camera to be turned on

    by checking USB

    DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,/\//')
    while [ -z ${DEVICE} ]
    do
    sleep 1
    DEVICE=$(gphoto2 --auto-detect | grep usb | cut -b 36-42 | sed 's/,/\//')
    done

    loop for all photos to be taken until camera is switched off or so

    until [ $? -ne 0 ]
    do

    wait for the first photo

    gphoto2 --capture-tethered --hook-script /usr/local/bin/hook.sh

    do the other photos

    gphoto2 --set-config capturetarget=1 \
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-2000 \
    --capture-image \
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-4000 \
    --capture-image \
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=2000 \
    --capture-image \
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=4000 \
    --capture-image \
    --set-config-value /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=0

    done
    done

    and finally the file /usr/local/bin/hook.sh:

    !/bin/sh

    case "$ACTION" in

    delete downloaded file and kill gphoto, so original script can continue

    download)
    rm $ARGUMENT
    kill $(pidof gphoto2)
    ;;
    *)
    ;;
    

    esac
    exit 0

    1. I'm rewriting my scripts in Perl. I think I understand how the wait-event option works. It may be possible to have the script run as a deamon waiting for the user to turn on the camera. Once the camera is on, the script waits for the user to press the shutter release. This image is then discarded and the script proceeds to capture 5 images then goes back to waiting for the user to press the shutter release. I'll test this out today.

  7. Another comparable device is the Z902 (current model is the Z2C) or the Measy U1A. There's also the Cotton Candy, though that one weighs in at $199 before shipping. Seems to be quite a few companies coming out with these types of devices right now.

        1. I assume then you mean that the D40 could send a signal to the USB port. But ... what would cause it to do that?

          The D40 doesn't send any "event" type signals to it's mini-USB port, other than providing power to the USB port when the camera is turned on. I'm not trying to get the camera to trigger the RPi. I want the RPi to trigger the camera.

          The use case for a camera is the other way around -- "capture an image when this event happens". An event would be pushing the shutter button or a capture signal sent from another device connected to the mini-USB port on the camera.

          1. Hi Khurt, isn't triggering from a Nikon Remote Control a similar event as pushing the shutter button?

            I guess what I'm trying to say is couldn't you use the remote to take a range of shots?

          2. Dave, I think you misunderstand the reason why I undertook the project. The D40 does not have auto-bracketing for use in HDR photography. HDR involves taking multiple captures of the same subject at different exposures. I'm using the RPi to control the D40 to take a photo, change the exposure, take another photo, etc. Yes, I could use the remote to do this but changing the exposures requires touching the camera which means the position of the lens will move. Even the smallest change messes up the HDR .

            Here is a great tutorial on HDR photography: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

            If the D40 had auto-bracketing I would have no use for the RPi for this project. The other project I mentioned in the blog post is using the RPi to trigger the Nikon at intervals for time lapse photography. I don't want the camera to tell the RPi to do something. I want the RPi to tell the camera to do something.

          3. Khurt, I understand the D40 side of things - I think I just misunderstood some of your original post.. I've read it back now and get what you are doing...

            One new question, when you go out in the field do you have the RaspberryPi turned on (plugged into your power source) constantly?

            I guess it doesn't consume much power?

            In addition Is setting up the cron job straightforward?

            Thanks!

          4. I turn the RPi on and off as needed. The battery pack lasts a long time. The problem is that I have no way to tell the RPi to stop taking photos. Once way was to turn off the camera. The problem is that when I would turn the camera back on I was forgetting to disconnect the RPi from the USB, and boom ... before I could compose my imaged the RPi would trigger another batch of captures. So ... I turn the RPi on/off as needed to allow me to compose between captures.

            The crontab is straight forward. However, I found some Python code that may help me start up my script at boot time similar to a system service.

          5. OK thanks for clearing that up - what is the boot time like, how long do you have to wait for the RPi to start triggering the camera?

          6. Khurt- Awesome job! Been reading you & Dave Hunt's projects, and the RPi. There are daughter-boards that have buttons on them- if you could build a case or if they fit in the existing case, you could build a "trigger" function to kick off the HDR script when you need it. Might take some experiments, but would be slick!

          7. Hi Erik,
            Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'm writing a perl script to control the camera via gPhoto and trigger the image capture via the camera shutter button. My goal is to have the entire thing triggered via a button and the RPi GPIO. I may even write some Perl bindings to the gPhoto library if I find the motivation and time.

  8. Hey, just a suggestion but you could also just unplug the camera from the Pi's USB rather than turning it on and waiting the 5 seconds. If it's unplugged, gphoto won't detect it. You could then even splice in a switch to the Vcc line on the USB cable and turn it on, off when you want.

  9. Hello Khurt and everybody else who's reading this post.

    My Rpi is running the so called "Soft-float Debian wheezy” and I've recently installed the gpohoto2 library (ver. 2.4.14, that is what is available from the repository) but unfortunately I haven't been able to get the library up and running properly yet so far with my Canon Powershot cameras (A300 and A520 models).

    The auto-detect function works just fine and both the cameras are correctly recognised but as I try to list files, it runs through the tree folders but retrieves no JPG files stored in the SD card (note there are several); besides, when I try to capture image and download it turns out that "This camera cannot capture".

    Wanna hear the weird thing?

    As I move the cameras to my laptop where I have installed Ubuntu and a not-so-much-earlier version of the gphoto2 library everything works just fine !!!

    I tried to run gphoto2 bot as "pi" and "root" users but it behaves in the same way.

    Does anyone would be so kind to help me figure this out? Am I the only one?

    1. Andrea,
      I tried using gPhoto with my Sony point-n-shoots (DSC-W55 and HDR-CX11). Neither worked well. I suspect the code in gPhoto on the Raspberry Pi is optimized for DSLR cameras.

    2. Hi

      Is Pi trying to mount the camera when it is plugged in/turned on. (does a screen pop up asking you what to do with it?) if so try to unmount the camera then try Gpgoto2.

      I had loads of problems with Gphoto2 at first, it would recognize the camera but not do much. It turned out that I needed to set the camera's USB setting to PTP / MTP and unmount the camera from Ubuntu.

    3. Hi everybody. Thanks for the replies. I'm happy to announce that I did fix the problem. I built a new SD image and on this fresh installation I installed the gphoto2 from te repository with the usual apt-get command. It worked as it was intended to do. Then I realised why it didn't work on the other SD card: before installing from the repository I tried to compile the source code of gphoto2 (so to have the latest release) on my own but the compiling process ended with several errors; only after this unsuccesfull operation I decided to get it from the repository but something must have gone wrong and looks like the two operations made a mess ! Needless to say that I use the command line shell only on Linux and obviously I had already put all the cameras in PTP mode.

  10. Nice work! This gave me an excuse to buy a raspberry!

    I have been playing with your code (not on a raspberry, on a win7 machine with ubuntu running in vmware) and got it to work with my Nikon D3000. It seems that the bracketing is slower then continuous shooting? Do you have the same experience?

      1. Have you played with the capture target? i.e.:
        gphoto2 --set-config capturetarget=0
        will only keep the photos in the camera's ram, instead of writing to the card.

        Then query and download the images from the ram?

        I don't know if it possible though.

        1. I did not use capturetarget = 0 because my Nikon ( and most DSLR cameras ) do not have internal memory. Images must be captured to SD card. If your capture has internal storage then capturetarget = 0 may work for you.

          1. I've got a D40x the camera has a frame buffer for when using burst shooting but I don't know to get Gphoto to access that.

            It seems that Gphoto likes to take a picture and then feed back on it's progress, If you could get Gphoto to ignore the feedback then maybe it could go faster. (similar to when the camera is set to single shot)

          2. Ok last night I had a quick play with my setup before the battery died.

            I tried these two lines of code; the first line sets the camera to burst mode the second tells the camera to use 5 bursts. this successfully utilized the camera's frame buffer.

            gphoto2 --set-config /main/capturesettings/capturemode=1
            gphoto2 --set-config /main/capturesettings/burstnumber=5

            However when trying these settings with your script I ended up with 5 frames of each exposure intotal 25 frames.

          3. That makes sense. My script capture 5 different exposures of the subject. If you call your gphoto2 command within the loop the burst mode will be run five time. 25 images. What are you trying to accomplish.

  11. You might want to check this out for GPIO control - http://davidhunt.ie/?p=2641 and I have just started my RasPi Camera Controlling and until I get a camera that works I can't take the next step. The next step for me is creating a web page to control the camera so then I can use any web browser on the network to control it. Last but not least I bought this battery pack and got 7 hours of RasPi on it with video playing 85% of the time - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VYXH6S/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00
    Have a great day.
    Rich Shumaker

  12. You might want to check this out for GPIO control - http://davidhunt.ie/?p=2641 and I have just started my RasPi Camera Controlling and until I get a camera that works I can't take the next step. The next step for me is creating a web page to control the camera so then I can use any web browser on the network to control it. Last but not least I bought this battery pack and got 7 hours of RasPi on it with video playing 85% of the time - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VYXH6S/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00
    Have a great day.
    Rich Shumaker

  13. Glad I've found this, have just got RPi and looking to set up similar with Nikon D2H. Will cetainly try out your script.

    1.  @GlennPhillips  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you are successful in getting your D2H to work with gPhoto2 and the Raspberry Pi.  I'm hoping to refine the script and add a triggering mechanism ... soon.

  14. gphoto2 appears to have two options which may help you capture images based on events: --capture-tethered and --wait-event (or --wait-event-and-download).  The manual does give the caveat that using these options requires support in both the camera and driver.
     
    Good stuff - I haven't yet ordered a Raspberry Pi due to not having a project in mind that it can help with... but now you've given me some ideas!  🙂

  15. Great piece of ingenuity. Could you possibly use a remote trigger that feeds its signal to the pi? Using something like the Gert board?

  16. Great piece of ingenuity. Could you possibly use a remote trigger that feeds its signal to the pi? Using something like the Gert board?

    1.  @BillyScott The Gert board is interesting. I want one but not at that price point (almost $50 US).  I wish they had released the schematics so I could build my own.

      1.  @khurtwilliams OK, I've got it running, but I have some errors.
        My Nikon D40 takes 5 shots, but it shows me this:*** Error ***              The property 'Exposure Compensation' / 0x5010 was not set, PTP errorcode 0x200f.
         
        *** Error ***              Failed to set new configuration value -2000 for configuration entry /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation. 

    1.  @unknown875 I have an Eye-Fi.  Used it for photo-shoot earlier this year.  My model works with JPEG only but I still found it useful.  I found the transfer speed a bit lacking and the connections were not stable.  Still, a recommended product if you need to shoot with a wireless tether.

  17. Nice work, was wondering have you heard of MK802? its similar to rasberry pi but much smaller and more powerful and for cheaper (is you include the cost of case) it has built in wifi and heres a performance comparison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbbfyWmmsKE, this can run linux to. would do you think?
     

      1.  @khurtwilliams  @mgarbowski No. I never heard of it before this. I'm also fortunate to have a Dt00 that doesn't need this extra setup in order to bracket. But, I love reading these sorts of self-help/self-invention projects, especially when it relates to an area I understand.

  18. @serendipitousP Thanks for the mention. I'm having lot's of fun with my #raspberrypi.

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