gPhoto is a set of
software applications and
libraries for use in
digital photography. gPhoto supports not just retrieving of images from camera devices, but also upload and remote controlled configuration and capture, depending on whether the camera supports those features.
Released under the
GNU Lesser General Public License, gPhoto is
free software
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.
Support
gPhoto supports more than 2500 cameras as of June 2019. It is
cross-platform
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, running under
Linux
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,
FreeBSD,
NetBSD and other
Unix-like
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operating systems.
gPhoto has support for the
Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) and will also connect to devices that use the
Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). Many cameras are not supported by gPhoto, but have support for the
USB mass storage device class, which is well-supported under Linux. gPhoto intentionally does not implement support for USB mass storage cameras, as this is already implemented in-kernel.
gPhoto supports camera tethering control, preview, viewfinder in PTP or camera specific protocols on numerous cameras.
Applications
gPhoto provides a library, libgphoto2, to allow for other frontends to be written for it, and a
command-line interface
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. gtkam is the official
GUI client for gPhoto. Other clients are the
KDE program
digiKam and the
GNOME program
Shotwell.
GVfs uses libgphoto2 to expose on-camera photos to GNOME applications via a virtual filesystem.
DigiKam, gtkam and support tethering capture and viewfinder for supported cameras.
gPhoto - doc - Remote controlling cameras
(last stable version) in gPhoto documentation
References
External links
*
List of supported cameras
Digital photography
Free graphics software
Photo software
Unix software
Photo software for Linux
C++ libraries
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