Hello -- I must say what a lovely community you have here. This is awesome. I personally was using a nice fuji camera, but "downgraded" to a a590 to run chdk. Now here's my dilemma / question. I have been charged with creating a photobooth for a wedding. I thought it would be simple enough to do this with CHDK. My basic requirements are to be able to take a few pictures in a row, then send them to a computer for processing. I was looking at some of the CHDK scripts, but I realized after buying the camera I would have rather gotten one that has remote control support (I see canon took this away on the newer models) so I could run the script on the pc and control the camera that way. Had I know my purchase would have been "missing" this feature I may have bought an older modeal. All that said, I've found the CHDK PTP thread here
http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php/topic,4338.0.html and it seems like it might be the solution i'm looking for. Ideally I would like to do the following:
Display a live feed from the camera on laptop
Have user press a button or mouse click to start coutdown for picture
Take several snapshots in a row
Print them out as a favor and upload them to a photo sharing site
I'm running debian and arch linux, and I believe I've gotten the printing and uploading piece complete. I need some way to take several pictures in a row, and then upload them to a laptop. Will CHDK PTP work for that? If so how? Or is there another way to accomplish this task I haven't thought of? Thanks!
1. I did manage to get ptpcam built using mweerdem's patch, and i can query for files on my camera. It doesn't let me use the capture options however :-(