camera control software

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:16 +0530, François Patte wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Bonjour,
> 
> are there camera control software available under fc6? I mean a software
> I can use to see and take photos from the computer to which the camera
> is plugged on.
> 
> Thank you
> - --
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université Paris Descartes
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

I believe that the PTP protocol is supported on a lot of cameras.  It
allows much more control of your camera than the webcam stuff, but I
haven't tried it out:

http://libptp.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol

Sean