[gphoto-devel] Support for camera Canon G16

[Harald Krause]

Hi all,

it seems the above mentioned camera is missing in the list of supported
cameras. For your convenience I send you the respective output on my system.

Kind regards

***@hypnos:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer
Bus 004 Device 005: ID 04a9:3274 Canon, Inc.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b8:011e Seiko Epson Corp. GT-8300UF [Perfection
1660 PHOTO]
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:07b2 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

***@hypnos:~$ gphoto2 --auto-detect
Modell Port
----------------------------------------------------------
USB PTP Class Camera usb:004,005

***@hypnos:~$ LANG=C gphoto2 --capture-image


*** Error ***
Sorry, your camera does not support generic capture
ERROR: Could not capture image.
ERROR: Could not capture.
*** Error (-6: 'Unsupported operation') ***

For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
developer mailing list <gphoto-***@lists.sourceforge.net>, please run
gphoto2 as follows:

env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt
--capture-image

Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.

[Marcus Meissner]

Hi Harald,

I have added it to our lists.

Note that this will not be making it capture capable, capture
is not enabled over USB in the firmware.

Thanks & Ciao, Marcus