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	dormant	2009-11-09 , 16:17
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Originally Posted by fphillips

Had you seen this project? http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Yes, but I don't want to change the firmware in the camera.

What exactly do you want to control? N900 is not exposing itself through PTP protocol as a camera so I fail to see how GPhoto2 would apply here.

My current project is:
- Take one photo every two minutes during daylight hours
- TIme tag each photo in the file name
- For the first two hours, all photos overexposed by 2/3 stop
- For the last two hours, all photos underexposed by 2/3 stop
- Rest of photos use auto exposure
- Store photos locally and access them using ftp

As I said I don't seriously plan to port this to the N900, it's just a thought experiment. My project is up and running using a $200 embedded PC and I'll stick with those.

Yes, I do. See maemo-barcode in Garage for some code that controls it from sw.

In fact you'd probably be better off using a camerabin, but I need to split my pipeline, so I've got a hybrid system in use.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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